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Peter Atkinson, Author, Gord Atkinson: "Ottawa's Oldest Teenager"   A generation of teens anxiously tuned into CFRA every week to hear Peter's father spin the latest hits and introduce the young rock and roll fans to the hottest new musicians. Gord Atkinson helped launch the careers of performers like Rich Little, Paul Anka, and the Staccatos […]

Jim Stone, Author, "Grand Chief Constant Pinesi: Fighting a Losing Battle"   Grand Chief Pierre-Louis Constant Pinesi (1768-1834) witnessed great and tragic changes during his lifetime. The traditional land upon which Chief Pinesi's family gathered, hunted, fished, and trapped is where the Nation's Capital is situated today — before those ancient and crucial livelihoods collapsed under […]

Randy Boswell, Journalist & Carleton University Professor   Beginning with the ancient Indigenous inhabitants of the Ottawa Valley and Bytown's earliest natural history societies, Randy Boswell explores our evolving relationship with the wildlife with which we share this planet. Contact : [email protected]

Paul Litt & Christine Jackson,Authors, 'Phyllis Turner Ross: Career Woman and Single Mother', Bytown Pamphlet Series #120   The story of John Napier Turner, Canada's 17th Prime Minister, is well known. Less known is the story of his remarkable mother, Phyllis Gregory Turner Ross, a single mother who came to Ottawa in the 1930s looking for work […]