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On November 14, 1975, Canadian radio history was made. When the strains of Joni Mitchell's "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio" transmitted over the airwaves at 93.1 FM, CKCU became the first campus-based community radio station in the country. In the ensuing 31 years, CKCU has continued to be a pioneer in community broadcasting, carrying out our mandate of providing an alternative to commercial radio and the CBC as a voice for the many Ottawa communities not served by the mainstream media. CKCU is licenced by the CRTC as a community-based campus radio station. This is a uniquely Canadian model which means that they are an integral part of the Carleton University community, but also serve many other groups within their broadcast range.

Charles Joseph (Joe) Clark was born on June 5, 1939 and raised in High River, Alberta. Clark attended the University of Alberta, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Political Science. Clark began his political career in the late 1960s first serving at the chief assistant to Alberta provincial Opposition Leader Robert Standfield. In 1972, Clark was elected to the House of Commons as MP for Rocky Mountain, Alberta. Following Standfield's resignation, Clark was elected national leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, also assuming the title of Leader of the Official Opposition. In the May 1979 general election, Clark became Prime Minister of Canada, winning the election with a minority government. Clark and the PC Party remained in Prime Ministerial Office until the following February 1980 election. Clark remained leader of the PC Party until 1983, when Brian Mulroney took leadership. The Progressive Conservatives under Mulroney won the 1984 federal election, and Clark served the Mulroney cabinet as Secretary of State for External Affairs. Clark then later served as the President of the Queen's Privy Council between 1991 and 1993. Clark retired from politics in 1993, but returned in 1998 after being elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party for a second time. Clark continued leadership until 2003, when the PC Party and the Canadian Alliance Party were dissolved into the new Conservative Party of Canada. Since officially retiring in 2004, Clark has served as a public figure in both Canada and the United States. He was appointed a Companion to the Order of Canada in 1994 and was honoured the Award for Excellence in the Cause of Parliamentary Democracy in 1994 by Canada's Churchill Society for the Advancement of Parliamentary Democracy in recognition of his lifetime achievements.

Brian Brooke Claxton, a lawyer and a politician was born at Montréal August 23, 1898 and died at Ottawa June 13, 1960. He attended Lower Canada College and McGill, graduating with an LLB in 1921. During WWI he served overseas with the 10th Siege Battery. He was active in many organizations, including the Canadian Clubs, the Canadian Radio League, the League of Nations Society, and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. He also taught insurance law at McGill. Claxton was elected as a Liberal representative for St Lawrence/St George in 1940, and was then appointed parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister King. While Minister of Health and Welfare he was responsible for the introduction of the family allowance, and as Minister of Defence he supervised the rebuilding of the Canadian armed forces both during and after the Korean War. He also helped negotiate Newfoundland's entry into Confederation in 1949. In 1954 he retired from politics to become general manager of Metropolitan Life, and in 1956 he served on Carleton University's Board of Governors for three years. In 1957 he was appointed first chairman of the Canada Council, in recognition of his role of bringing the government more broadly into support for the arts.

Jacques Rene Marie Julien Dalibard was born in Le Mans, France, on April 21, 1935 and died September 15, 2007. He attended St. Jean-de-Bethune, Versailles and Lycée du Mans in France in his youth. Dalibard then attended the University of Lille, Bristol University and McGill University, obtaining a Bachelor of Architecture in 1964. He obtained a Master's of Scientific Architecture in 1971 from Columbia University. He was a professor of Architecture at the University of Montreal from 1995-2005. He was named the Executive Director of the Heritage Canada Foundation in 1978 to 1995, and Senior Exhibit Designer for the Canadian Pavilion at Montreal's World's Fair (Expo '67) from1964 to 1967. He was the Chief Restoration Architect and a Director at Parks Canada from 1968 to 1977. Dalibard was a Special Advisor to the UNESCO cultural heritage mission to Cyprus from 1975 to 1977. He was a Professor of Architecture and Director of Historic Preservation division of the graduate school for Architectural Planning & Preservation at Columbia University from 1977 to 1978. He was a member of the Canadian Committee for UNESCO and was a founding member and President (1969-1990) of the National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a past president of the Association for Preservation Technology (APT) and the founding editor of the APT Bulletin. He was a member of the Ontario Association of Architects, the Association of Canadian Museums, the International Council of Museums (ICOM), and the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS; Member of the executive from 1972 to 1984, treasurer-general from 1981-1984, and President of the consultative committee from 1987-1990), he was a member of the Commission Franco Québécoise pour les lieux de la mémoire communs, and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Dalibard was a recipient of the ICOMOS Warsaw Medal (1980), the Medaille de la Ville de Quebec (1987), and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (1988). He was a made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1991. In 1992 he was awarded the Canada 123 medal, and in 2002 the ICOMOS-Canada Award of Excellence.

Lancelot de Carle (1825-1905) served his apprenticeship as a stonecutter with his uncle Benjamin de Carle in his native Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Canada following his marriage in 1853. He worked at his trade for several years in Lancaster village, Glengarry County, Canada West (1856-58) and at Waterloo (now Cataraqui) adjacent to Cataraqui Cemetery outside Kingston (1859). In 1861 he established what became the Brockville Cemetery Memorial Works on Railroad Street in Brockville. He assumed management of the Brockville Cemeteries as an adjunct to his business on 1 July 1871 and relocated the business to a site adjacent to the cemeteries on what is now Highway 2 just west of Brockville. He had worked as a draughtsman with the Grand Trunk Railway while still in Lancaster, and in the 1870s and 1880s he worked on railway projects in the Port Arthur (Thunder Bay) area of Ontario and in Manitoba. The memorial business became increasingly the responsibility of his sons Leopold (d. 1917) and Charles W. (1858-1928), with the former operating the shop and the latter responsible for correspondence and bookkeeping. Leopold's son Victor (1885-1939) became a partner in the firm with his uncle Charles following his father's death. Fred W. Grant, who started as an apprentice on 4 January 1932, acquired a half interest in the business in 1939 following the death of Victor de Carle. The firm did not operate from August 1943 to May 1945 while Grant was serving with the RCAF, but upon his return from the Second World War he purchased the remaining interest in the business from Victor's widow Laura de Carle, and sold the business upon retirement.

Marc Denhez is an author, lawyer, and adjudicator with experience in the law of built, natural and intangible heritage, along with planning, for sixteen countries, ten provinces, and UNESCO. He chaired the government-industry task force on the future of Canada' residential renovation industry. He has taught at four universities, and lectured at another thirty in North America and Europe.

Wilfred Eggleston was the founder and first director of the school of journalism at Carleton University. Between 1942-1944 Eggleston was the chief censor for Canada. Eggleston also wrote for the Toronto Star, and Time Magazine.

Espace Musique was established in Ottawa in 1979 by Gerald Corey, and ceased operations after a final concert in October 2002.

David Morice Leigh Farr was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on December 19, 1922. He attended the University of British Columbia in 1940 and graduated in 1944 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, First Class Honours in History and Economics. Immediately after graduation, Dr. Farr entered the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve for one year after which time he relocated to Toronto and enrolled in the Masters Program (Canadian History, 1945-1946) at the University of Toronto. In 1946 Dr. Farr married Joan R. Fisher and joined Dalhousie University (1946-1947) as a lecturer in Canadian history. One year later, he was appointed lecturer at Carleton College (changed to Carleton University in 1957). During this time, Dr. Farr worked towards a Doctorate in Modern History, at Oxford University (New College and Nuffield College, 1950-1952). In addition, during the fifties Dr. Farr was employed as a Research Officer for the Defense Research Board (Summer 1955 and 1956), and Associate Examiner (1954-1955) and Examiner- in-Chief (1957-1959) for Department of Education, Toronto. Since 1947 Dr. Farr has had a career as a scholar and academic instructor/advisor at Carleton; Lecturer (1947-1952); Assistant Professor (1952-1957); Associate Professor (1957- 1961); Professor (1961-1987); Professor Emeritus (1987); Chairman, Department of History (1952-1963); Dean of Arts (1963-1969); Chairman, Council of Arts and Science of Ontario Universities (1967-1968); Member (1974-1976) and Chairman (1977-1985), Senate Committee on Honourary Degrees; Director, Paterson Centre for International Programs (1979-1985). Other academic appointments were Visiting Lecturer, University of British Columbia (Summer 1953) and Visiting Associate Professor (1957-1958), and Visiting Associate Professor for the Commonwealth Studies Centre, Duke University (1960). Dr. Farr has received honours and awards which include the John and Annie Southcott Memorial Scholarship (1943); University Graduate Historical Society Prize (1944); Research Fellowship from the Canadian Social Science Research Council (1950-1951); Studentship (1951- 1952); Short-Term Research Grant, Canada Council (1964, 1969-1970, 1976-1977); Research Grant, Canadian Institute of International Affairs (1975-1978); Research Grant, Carleton University (1976-1977, 1985-1986); Professor Emeritus (1987) Throughout his academic career Dr. Farr has been involved in various University committees such as the Interfaith Committee, Carleton University Press Committee, and the Promotions and Search Committees, as well as many professional associations and historical interests. His participation has ranged from general member to President for such associations as the Canadian Historical Association; Ontario Historical Association; Canadian Institute of International Affairs; Canada Council; Social Science Research Council of Canada and the Social Science Federation of Canada; Canadian Political Science Association; Royal Commonwealth Society; Canadian Association of University Teachers. Dr. Farr has also had works published which include, A Church in the Glebe; St. Matthew's, Ottawa 1898-1988; a history prepared for the occasion of the 90th anniversary of St. Matthew's Church; The Imperial Federation League in Canada, 1885-1894; and Colonial office and Canada, 1867-1887.

George Victor Ferguson was born in Cupar, Fife, Scotland in 1897. His family settled in Nelson, British Columbia in 1903, and in 1912 moved to Calgary, Alberta. He served in France in the 196th Battalion during the First World War. After the war he attended the University of Alberta, and won a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1923 he received his BA from Christ Church, Oxford. He joined the staff of the Manitoba Free Press in 1925. He became Managing Editor of the Winnipeg Free Press between 1933-1944 and Executive Director between 1944-1946. In the late 1930s he also began political broadcasts on CBC Radio. He quit the Winnipeg Free Press in 1946 and worked for the international service of the CBC, and later became Editor of the Montreal Star, retiring in 1968. He died in Montreal in 1977.