Capital Builders: Book highlights the people who shaped Ottawa history

Who built 24 Sussex Drive? You may not know that, and neither did I, until just over a year ago, when Citizen editors sat down to plan some of our coverage for Canada 150. Among the ideas that surfaced was a series of profiles of local city-builders. Not the famous people and politicians whose names are familiar and who happened to have lived in Ottawa, but the longtime residents who shaped and contributed to making the city we know today. Within a few weeks, most of our reporters had