July 5 2017 Edition
Canada 150 celebrations in Quebec City
“The little festival that could” turns 50!
The Festival d’Été de Québec (FEQ) is celebrating 50 years of bringing the best musical talent in the world to the Old City – with the notable absence to date of Bruce Springsteen – hint, hint.
The making of The Philanthropist: Part 2
Ticket sales are in full swing!
Ticket sales for the multimedia theatre production The Philanthropist are in full swing. In Part 1, readers learned about the origins of this project. The QCT continued its interview with Mike Boden who revealed more about how the production is unfolding.
James Allan named 2017 Scotsman of the Year
James Allan of Kinnear’s Mills was named the 2017 Scotsman of the Year by the Quebec Thistle Committee of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal during the Auld Alliance Awards Ceremony held at the Officer’s Mess of the Black Watch Armoury in Montreal on April 29.
Memorials and Things of Fame
Story behind Avenue du Zoo
78th Fraser Highlanders open Musical Wednesdays
Musical Wednesdays, a series of 10 noon-hour summer concerts at Chalmers-Wesley United Church in Old Quebec, opened on June 28 with a program of bagpipe and drum music presented by two members of the 78th Fraser Highlanders.
Jeffy Jan II, a yacht, a war and a legend
Thursday last, Lévis alderman Pierre Lainesse and the Naval Museum of Quebec director André Kirouac officially inaugurated the Jeffy Jan II, a yacht, a war and a legend exhibit at the A.C. Davie Shipyard National Historic Site.
