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Late in the night on an Ottawa street someone snuck up behind Thomas D'Arcy McGee and shot him dead. We're back with David Wilson this week to talk about McGee and his assassination.
There's really no one better to talk to than Wilson, the author of an award-winning two volume biography of McGee.
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