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Collège Saint-Charles-Garnier
St. Charles Garnier College () or Jesuit College is a private secondary school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., b ... in Quebec City, Quebec. The current school was established by the Society of Jesus in 1930 and it succeeded a previous Jesuit college which was founded in 1634. It is situated on Boulevard René-Lévesque to the east of Laval University in the borough of Sainte-Foy–Sillery–Cap-Rouge. Attached to the college is the Manresa Spirituality Centre. History Origin When the Jesuits came to New France they made plans to found a college. In 1634, they opened Jesuit College. It was situated on the current site of the City Hall of Quebec City. In 1648, it was replaced by a more permanent stone building. It was further expanded in 1740. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec City
Quebec City is the capital city of the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a population of 839,311. It is the twelfthList of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, -largest city and the seventh-List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the List of towns in Quebec, second-largest city in the province, after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement here in 1608, and adopted the Algonquin name. Quebec City is one of the List of North American cities by year of foundation, oldest European settlements in North America. The Ramparts of Quebec City, ramparts surrounding Old Quebec () are the only fortified city walls remaining in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve (November 2, 1883 – January 17, 1947) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1931 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1933. Biography Early life and ordination Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve was born in Montreal, one of the three children of Rodrigue Villeneuve (a shoemaker) and Louise Lalonde. He completed his secondary studies at Mont-Saint-Louis, from where he obtained a diploma in science and commerce, in 1900. After teaching at a school in Dorval, Villeneuve entered the Oblates of Mary Immaculate on August 14, 1901, in Lachine. He professed his final vows on September 8, 1903, and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Joseph-Thomas Duhamel on May 25, 1907. While pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Ottawa, Villeneuve taught philosophy (1907–1913) and moral theology (1913–1920) at the Oblate Scholasticate in Ottawa. He also served as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantal Ringuet
Chantal Ringuet (born in Quebec City) is a Canadian scholar, award-winning author and translator. Biography After completing a Ph.D. in literary studies (2007, UQÀM, Honourable Mention), Ringuet has been a postdoctoral Fellow in Canadian studies at the University of Ottawa (2007-8) and earned a master's degree in International Management at l' ÉNAP (2009). Since 2014, she has been a Fellow at YIVO, the Institute for Jewish Studies in New York, scholar-in-residence at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in Boston and translator-in-residence at the Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity, research associate at Concordia University's Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies (Montreal) and lecturer at the Institut européen Emmanuel Lévinas ( AIU) in Paris. In Winter 2019, she was writer-in-residence (visiting scholar) at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. She is the first writer to stay in the Gröndalshause Literature City Residence in Reykjavik UNESCO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hélène Florent for her performance in ''Café de Flore''. That film also got her nominated for a Satellite Award for Best Supp ...
Hélène Florent is a Canadian film and television actress. Her roles have included the television series '' Les Invincibles'', ''Toute la vérité'', ''La galère'', and the 2000s revival of '' Lance et compte'', as well as the films ''Yellowknife'', '' Familia'', '' Life with My Father (La Vie avec mon père)'' and ''Café de Flore''. She garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 32nd Genie Awards The 32nd Genie Awards ceremony was held on March 8, 2012 to honour films released in 2011. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lepage
Robert Lepage (born December 12, 1957) is a Canadian playwright, actor, film director, and stage director. Early life Lepage was raised in Quebec City. At age five, he was diagnosed with a rare form of alopecia, which caused complete hair loss over his whole body."History meets personal history for Robert Lepage" ''Toronto Star'', November 12, 2010. He also struggled with clinical depression in his teens as he came to terms with being gay. Between 1975 and 1978, he studied theatre at Quebec City's Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique. He subsequently participated in workshops at Alain Knapp's theatre school in Paris, France. Theatrical career After coming back to Quebec City, Lepage wrote, directed ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Maeder
Pascal Maeder is a Swiss-Canadian film producer and cyberneticist. In 2020, he launched ''x-ode'', an XR messaging app enabling its users to connect with one another based on shared experiences in the real world. The app was developed by Urbanoid, a technology company founded by Maeder with hubs in Switzerland and Canada. Maeder had previously founded Atopia, a film production company through which he produced and released several feature films including S.P.I.T.: Squeegee Punks In Traffic (2001), A Silent Love (2004) and Je me souviens (2009). Maeder studied film production at Concordia University in the late 1980s before co-founding Dummies Theatre Dummies Theatre was a Canadian Experimental theatre, experimental and interdisciplinary contemporary theatre company known for creating free Site-specific theatre, site-specific works and daring productions in vacant stores located in Montreal du ..., an experimental and interdisciplinary theatre company known for creating fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Plamondon
Luc Plamondon (born March 2, 1942) is a French Canadians, French-Canadian lyricist and music executive. His work includes the musicals Starmania (musical), ''Starmania'' and Notre-Dame de Paris (musical), ''Notre-Dame de Paris''. He is the brother of Louis Plamondon, a long-serving member of the House of Commons of Canada. Plamondon has accepted honours from Canadian institutions and is a francophone nationalist and Quebec sovereigntist. He was born in Saint-Raymond, Quebec, Saint-Raymond. His father was a horse dealer. He learned the piano and undertook classical studies at the Collège François-de-Laval, Petit Séminaire de Québec. He says that he entered the seminary to be a priest and that he came out a poet. However, when his interview was published, the word "poet" became "painter", hence the misunderstanding that he was an expert in painting. On the other hand, although he has never painted, he is a fan of modern painting. Activities From 1972, in addition to his c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Garneau
Louis Garneau (born August 9, 1958, in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada) is a retired competitive cyclist, artist, and businessman of French-Canadian descent. In 1978, Garneau was the Canadian champion in individual pursuit cycling. In 1983, he founded Louis Garneau Sports, which sells cycling clothing and accessories. Early years Garneau was born in Sainte-Foy, Quebec on August 9, 1958, the son of Paul Garneau and Jeannine Lehoux. He obtained his bachelor's degree in visual arts from Laval University and won an excellence scholarship there in 1983. From 1970 to 1983, Garneau was an international cyclist and won the title of Canadian champion in individual pursuit in 1978. He was selected to participate in the 1980 Moscow Olympics, but could not participate due to the boycott of these games by Canada. After taking part in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, he retired from competition. Business career In 1983, Garneau began making clothing for cyclists in his father's garage, supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deputy Premier Of Quebec
The deputy premier of Quebec ( French: ''Vice-premier ministre du Québec'' (masculine) or ''Vice-première ministre du Québec'' (feminine)), is the deputy head of government in Quebec. There was no deputy premier until July 1960. In the 1960s, the post was sometimes referred to as the vice president of the Executive Council. The post has been temporarily vacant twice: after the death of Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr. when the incumbent deputy premier, Jean-Jacques Bertrand, became premier; and after the death of Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte. Besides Bertrand, two other deputy premiers, Bernard Landry and Pauline Marois, later became premier, though both did so some years after their tenure as deputy premier had ended. The longest serving deputy Premier was Lise Bacon at 8 years and 30 days. While Michelle Courchesne was the shorter serving at 4 months 5 days. Out of 22 deputy Premiers 10 have been women. The current Deputy Premier is Geneviève Guilbault of the CAQ and was swo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneviève Guilbault
Geneviève Guilbault (; born November 4, 1982) is a Canadian politician who was elected to the National Assembly of Quebec in a by-election held in the electoral district Louis-Hébert on October 2, 2017. She is a member of the Coalition Avenir Québec. On October 18, 2018, she was appointed Deputy Premier and Minister of Public Safety. On October 20, 2022, she was re-appointed Deputy Premier and appointed Minister of Transport replacing François Bonnardel. Prior to her election to the legislature, she worked as a communications officer for the provincial coroner's office."Geneviève Guilbault to be CAQ's new candidate in Louis-Hébert: source" '' |
Liberal Party Of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC; , ) is a federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism,McCall, Christina; Stephen Clarkson"Liberal Party". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. and generally sits at the Centrism, centre to Centre-left politics, centre-left of the Politics of Canada, Canadian political spectrum, with their main rival, the Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative Party, positioned to their Right-wing politics, right and the New Democratic Party positioned to their Left-wing politics, left. The party is described as "big tent",PDF copy at UBC Press. practising "brokerage politics", attracting support from a broad spectrum of voters. The Liberal Party is the longest-serving and oldest active federal political party in the country, and has dominated th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stéphane Dion
Stéphane Maurice Dion (; ; born 28September 1955) is a Canadian diplomat, academic and former politician who has been the List of ambassadors of Canada to France, Canadian ambassador to France and Monaco since 2022 and special envoy to the European Union since 2017. He was Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada), leader of the Opposition and Liberal Party of Canada#Leaders, leader of the Liberal Party from 2006 to 2008. He served in cabinets as Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, intergovernmental affairs minister (1996–2003), Minister of Environment and Climate Change, environment minister (2003–2006), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada), foreign affairs minister (2015–2017). Before entering politics, Dion was a professor of political science at the Université de Montréal. His research focused on Canadian federalism and public administration. Throughout his tenure in government, Dion held a number of portfolios. He was first named Minister of Intergovernmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
