Paul Weber entertains us with songs and stories from Ottawa's history.

Founded as the Union Mission in 1906, the Mission has grown as Ottawa has grown, supporting our community through the Great Depression, through the postwar years to present day, providing healing and hope to thousands every year.

Peter Tilley discusses the remarkable legacy of The Ottawa Mission.

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 to support her two children... and worked her way up to become the highest-ranking woman in Canada's wartime civil service.

Paul Litt tells the story of Phyllis Gregory Turner Ross, along with a special interview with Phyllis' daughter, Brenda Norris.

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 the unending wave of European settlement and deforestation.

Chief Pinesi, who fought bravely alongside the British during the War of 1812, saw his many petitions to the Crown for recognition of his people's ancestral rights left unanswered.

Jim Stone has conducted extensive research into the life and legacy of Chief Pinesi, working in consultation with members of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation, including direct descendants of Chief Pinesi.

Introduction by Merv Sarazin, Band Councillor, Pikwakanagan First Nation.

Ivan Tanner and Gerard Boyer of the Cumberland Township Historical Society highlight stories from Cumberland Township including the murder of County Constable John Morrison.

Jim Burant, author of  'Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History', takes us on a tour of Ottawa's surprising artistic past.

What fate awaited the typhus-stricken Irish Famine refugees upon their arrival in early Bytown?

Michael McBane, author of 'Bytown 1847, Élisabeth Bruyère & the Irish Famine refugees', explores the shocking tragedy and inspiring heroism that emerged during that era of great crisis from Ottawa's past.

Glenn Sweazey and June Girvan explain why attempts to abolish slavery in Upper Canada failed and why it required a revolution decades later in Jamaica before slavery finally came to an end throughout the British Empire.

Arthur Milnes recalls how Jimmy Carter played a courageous role in repairing the damage from the world's first nuclear meltdown — here in the Ottawa Valley.

Brian McDougall takes us back to the turbulent post-war era of labour unrest and explores the defeat of the radicals and the implications of that moment in Ottawa's history for our understanding of the underlying social tensions of 1919.