Québec and moi:
Confessions of a Québec City tour guide
Neighborhood Names, Part I
In the spring of 1756, the port city of Brest, France, hosted a handful of…
Cheese matters
Have you heard the news? Last month, in Madison, Wisconsin, a panel of connoisseurs at…
Gone to the dogs
A couple of weeks ago, I took a group of students from the Maritimes dogsledding…
Bye bye, 2017!
The numbers for 2017 are coming in and we are discovering that it has been…
Krieghoff’s Québec
Cornelius Krieghoff lived a peripatetic existence. Born in Amsterdam in 1815, he spent his formative…
Bernini and Louis XIV
In the spring of 1665, Gian Lorenzo Bernini arrived in Paris having been summoned by…
The Duke of Richmond
Charles Lennox, Duke of Richmond, was 53 when he came to Québec City and nearing…
Battlefields
I walk across two battlefields every day on the way home from the Old City….
Winter City par excellence!
Dear readers, it is time to vote!! As we ease into the winter season, Québec…