Possible Clues:

• Where The Gazette is published
• Rebuilt a Metro line around Northern French city, originally
• Home of McGill University
• City of Quebec
• Canada's largest city, on St Lawrence river
• Quebec port of call
• Where David Wilkie struck gold
• City and major port in central Canada
• Days being short - that's serious for city
• Sad to leave Aldermaston, moving somewhere abroad