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    Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (Plain-Language Summary)

    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 a notable 19th-century artist. Of Mohawk and European descent, she was a gifted writer and speaker. She toured widely, winning audiences over with her flare for the dramatic arts. Johnson is listed as a Person of National Historic Significance. Her childhood home is a National Historic Site and museum. A monument in Vancouver’s Stanley Park pays tribute to her work and legacy. In 2016, she was one of 12 women who were considered to appear on a banknote. This article is a plain-language summary of Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). If you are interested in reading about this topic in more depth, please see our full-length entry: Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake).

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    Pauline Julien

    Pauline Julien, CQ, singer, actress, songwriter (born 23 May 1928 in Trois-Rivières, QC; died 1 October 1998 in Montreal, QC). Nicknamed “the passionara of Quebec,” the singer Pauline Julien was known for her expressive power and sensitivity — qualities she drew from her experience in both music and theatre. Julien was equally popular in Quebec and Europe, and also enjoyed success in English Canada. She introduced the songs of Weill and Brecht to Quebec, popularized songs by Raymond Lévesque and Gilles Vigneault, and released 23 solo albums in her lifetime. She received two Grand prix du disque from Paris’ Académie Charles-Cros and the Prix de musique Calixa-Lavallée from Montreal’s Société St-Jean-Baptiste. She was made a knight of the Ordre des arts et des lettres de France and of the National Order of Québec.

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    Pauline Martin

    Pauline Martin, comedian, actress, director (born 19 April 1953 in Trois-Pistoles, QC).

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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, RCA, artist, sculptor (born December 1917 at a hunting camp on Baffin Island, NT [now NU]; died 9 June 2009 in Cape Dorset [now Kinngait], NU). Technically skillful in stone or on paper, Pauta Saila was known particularly for his "dancing bears," powerful, somewhat abstract sculptures of upright polar bears. In 2003, he was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

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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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    Peace and Friendship Treaties

    Between 1725 and 1779, Britain signed a series of treaties with various Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik (Maliseet), Abenaki, Penobscot and Passamaquoddy peoples living in parts of what are now the Maritimes and Gaspé region in Canada and the northeastern United States. Commonly known as the Peace and Friendship Treaties, these agreements were chiefly designed to prevent war between enemies and to facilitate trade. While these treaties contained no monetary or land transfer provisions, they guaranteed hunting, fishing and land-use rights for the descendants of the Indigenous signatories. The Peace and Friendship Treaties remain in effect today. In 2026, the Government of Canada recognized the 1726 Peace and Friendship Treaty as a National Historic Event.

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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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