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Re-Joyce! It’s Bloomsday 2021!
It’s Bloomsday 2021! Read up about the events to happen this year and plan out your day! [read more]
Articles by T. A. Wellington
Festivals
Photojournal: Taco Fest Montréal 2019
Heavy rain could not halt Taco Fest Montreal on a Labour Day. Among the vendors included Dope as Duck, who served Mexican cuisine inspired poutine and tacos with duck meat, Mula, serving chicken quesadillas and [read more]
Festivals
Le Grand Poutinefest Doesn’t Hold the Fries and Gravy
Good eating at the old port. [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1959: The End of Duplessis & Other Quebec Curios
By the end of the 1950s, Maurice Duplessis had been in politics for thirty-two years of his life, eighteen of which had been as Premier of Québec. From humble beginnings as a politician’s son and [read more]
Consider
1959: Mr. Roncarelli, Speaking & Other Quebec Curios
Frank Roncarelli was a businessman. The owner of a highly successful restaurant on Crescent Street, Quaff Café, Roncarelli had accumulated a certain wealth. He was also a member of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a sect of [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1958: The Other Chief & Other Quebec Curios
John Diefenbaker’s law practice that began in a shack that he had built on a vacant spot of land and ended with his competitor being run out of town. His political career began in the [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1957: Québec’s Natural Gas Company & Other Quebec Curios
Natural gas, a fossil fuel substance that occurs naturally in the soil, can be harnessed to power homes and vehicles and is generally less toxic to the environment than other fossil fuels in the same [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1956: Bourassa Departs and Duplessis Marches On & Other Quebec Curios
In 1956, while the big movers and shakers of the next generation such as Jean Lesage and René Lévesque were already in politics or moving towards that goal, Robert Bourassa’s story was only beginning. Recognized [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1956: The Coffin Affair & Other Quebec Curios
Wilbert Coffin was firstly a Gaspésien. A prospector by trade, his chance run in with three men and six hundred dollars led to one of the most hotly-debated cases in Canadian legal history. Three Pennsylvanian [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1955: The Other Maurice & Other Quebec Curios
As Maurice Duplessis reigned the world politics, there was another Maurice who reigned the hearts and minds of sports fanatics: Maurice Richard, the star hockey player of the Montreal Canadiens and seen by many of [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1954-6: Duplessis Decides to Tax Everybody & Other Quebec Curios
It’s officially tax time in Canada, and you might be wondering why residents of Québec must fill out two income tax forms. Surprisingly, this is one of Maurice Duplessis’ many legacies to the people of [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1952: Radio-Canada and the Young Lévesque & Other Quebec Curios
September 1952 marked a leap in Canadian media: Radio-Canada marked its first television broadcast. Its English counterpart, the CBC, broadcasting days after Radio-Canada’s historic transmission. Television, as a technology, started production for domestic consumption in [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1949: Asbestos in the Air & Other Quebec Curios
Well into his third term as Premier, Maurice Duplessis‘ campaign to electrify the countryside was going well, while his operation that imprisoned hundreds of thousands of children by declaring them mentally unstable was being kept [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1945-8: Duplessis’ Countryside Controversies & Other Quebec Curios
Maurice Duplessis, back in power after a stunning election, was once again at the very top of the provincial politics pecking order. Many things had changed as he sat as the Opposition leader: women were [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1944: The End of Godbout & Other Quebec Curios
The 1944 election saw old and new brought together. The first provincial election in which women could vote and where there were not only one but two new political parties that won seats, the election [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1943: Montreal and the Atomic Bomb & Other Quebec Curios
The race to create an atomic bomb started shortly after World War II began, with the United States spearheading the Manhattan Project. The USSR, acting on intelligence that the United States was starting research on [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1941: Godbout and Conscription & Other Quebec Curios
The issue of conscription, an issue that was almost inherent in the consciousness of many French Canadians, had brought along many consequences: in recent memory, Maurice Duplessis’ snap election that elected Adélard Godbout and the [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1940-44: Camillien Houde & Other Quebec Curios
Camillien Houde, at one-time part of the provincial Conservative Party and a collaborator with Maurice Duplessis, found provincial politics boring and decided to try his hand in municipal politics. His first adversary, Médéric Martin, was [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1940: Votes for Women & Other Quebec Curios
Shortly before the end of World War I, certain groups of women were able to vote in federal elections, on the condition that they were working for the military or a male relative was working [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1939: Duplessis and Godbout Rescue UdeM & Other Quebec Curios
Despite Maurice Duplessis and Adélard Godbout’s many disagreements, the two governments indirectly worked towards the same goal in the late 1930s: ensuring the Université de Montréal’s survival. The Université de Montréal started out as an [read more]