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    Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

    Emily Pauline Johnson (a.k.a. Tekahionwake, “double wampum”) poet, writer, artist, performer (born 10 March 1861 on the Six Nations Reserve, Canada West; died 7 March 1913 in Vancouver, BC). Pauline Johnson was one of North America’s most notable entertainers of the late 19th century. A mixed-race woman of Mohawk and European descent, she was a gifted writer and poised orator. She toured extensively, captivating audiences with her flair for the dramatic arts. Johnson made important contributions to Indigenous and Canadian oral and written culture. She is listed as a Person of National Historic Significance and her childhood home is a National Historic Site and museum. A monument in Vancouver’s Stanley Park commemorates her work and legacy. In 2016, she was one of 12 Canadian women in consideration to appear on a banknote. (See Women on Canadian Banknotes.)

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    Pauline Vaillancourt

    Vaillancourt studied in Québec City and Montréal and made her debut as a soloist in 1970. Since then she has appeared frequently in Québec and in Europe, notably in Paris, Strasbourg, London and Valencia.

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    Pauline Vaillancourt

    Aperghis Récitations - Scelsi Chants du Capricorne. (1990).

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    Pauta Saila

    Pauta Saila, sculptor (b at a hunting camp on the W coast S Baffin I, NWT Dec 1917; d at Cape Dorset 9 June 2009). Technically skilful in stone or on paper, Pauta was known particularly for his "dancing bears," powerful, somewhat

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    Paxton Whitehead

    Paxton Whitehead, actor, director (b at East Malling, Kent, England 17 October 1937). Whitehead attended Rugby School and London's Webber Academy of Dramatic Art. At 18, he made his professional stage debut in Eastbourne, then joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and toured Russia in Hamlet (1958).

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    Paying Tribute to Painter Maud Lewis

    This article was originally published in Maclean's magazine on 14 April 1997.Maud Lewis lived a life that few would envy. Born in rural Nova Scotia in 1903, Lewis suffered from a series of birth defects that left her fingers painfully deformed, her shoulders hunched and her chin pressed into her chest. She spent most of her adult life as a virtual recluse in a cramped one-room house that had no running water or electricity. For more than three decades, the diminutive Lewis eked out a living rendering colorful oil paintings on the most primitive of surfaces — including particleboard, cardboard and wallpaper — which she sold for a few dollars each. Her miserly husband, Everett, often squirrelled away her slim profits, hiding the cash under the floorboards or in jars buried in the garden. At the age of 67, Lewis — who had suffered lung damage due to constant exposure to paint fumes and wood smoke — contracted pneumonia and died in hospital. She was buried in a child's coffin and laid to rest in a pauper's grave.

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    Payola$

    Fronted by lead singer Paul Hyde’s eccentric, English-accented vocals and lyrics, and characterized by several shifts in style and sound, the punk/new wave/pop band Payola$ (later Paul Hyde and the Payolas, then Rock and Hyde) was one of the more idiosyncratic Canadian groups to enjoy commercial success in the 1980s. 

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    Peaches

    ​Merrill Beth Nisker (a.k.a. Peaches), singer, songwriter, musician, performance artist, filmmaker (born 11 November 1968 in Toronto, ON).

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    Peggie Sampson

    Peggie (b Margaret) Sampson.

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    Peggy Baker

    Peggy Baker danced with the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company in New York (1981-88) and became one of its most acclaimed performers, latterly assisting Lubovitch as rehearsal director.

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    Peggy Sharpe

    Peggy (Agnes) Sharpe. Pianist, teacher, administrator, b Brandon, Man, 26 Jul 1914; ATCM 1932, BA (McMaster ) 1935, diploma(Brandon) 1936, M MUS (Northwestern) 1963. Sharpe graduated from the TCM (RCMT) at age 17.

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    Pegi Nicol MacLeod

    In 1936, with Douglas DUNCAN, she helped found the Picture Loan Society. In 1937 she moved to New York but frequently visited Fredericton where she helped found (and taught at) the Observatory Art Centre.

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    Peleg Franklin Brownell

    Oil on canvas, 1922, by Franklin Brownell (courtesy National Gallery of Canada/Musée des Beaux-Arts du Canada, Ottawa).Peleg Franklin Brownell Peleg Franklin Brownell, painter, teacher (b at New Bedford, Mass 27 July 1857; d at Ottawa 13 Mar 1946). After studying at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, he went to Paris to study under Robert-Fleury, Bouguereau and Bonnat. In 1886 he became principal of the Ottawa Art School and subsequently headed the Woman's Art Association of...

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    Penderecki String Quartet

    An early version of the group, first formed in Poland and then called the New Szymanowski Quartet, won a special prize at a 1986 competition in Lodz for its performance of Quartet No. 2 by Krysztof Penderecki. The composer, who served as one of the judges, invited the quartet to take his name.

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    Percival J. Illsley

    Percival J. (John) Illsley. Organist, choir conductor, teacher, b Cheddleton, Staffordshire, England, 1865, d Montreal 13 Oct 1924; ARCO 1887, B MUS (Trinity, Toronto) 1893, B MUS (Bishop's) 1894, D MUS (Bishop's) 1913, FRCO 1901, D MUS (Cantuar) 1912. He was a pupil and then the assistant of J.B.

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