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    Ovila Légaré

    Ovila Légaré. Folklorist, singer, actor, script-writer, host, b Montreal 21 Jul 1901, d there 19 Feb 1978. Ovila Légaré became deeply interested in Quebec's traditional music and began playing the violin. Having injured his hand while working as a printer, he turned to the theatre and to singing.

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    Ovilu Tunnillie

    Ovilu Tunnillie, sculptor (b at Cape Dorset, NWT 20 Dec 1949). Ovilu comes from an artistic Cape Dorset family; her parents were the noted artists Toonoo and Sheokjuke.

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    Owen Pallett

    Pallett became involved in Toronto's indie music community when he joined the band The Hidden Cameras in 2002. For a short time, he led his own trio, Les Mouches, and was a member of various other bands such as Picastro and Boy Magic.

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    Owen Underhill

    Owen Underhill. Composer, conductor, teacher, flutist, b Regina 26 Jan 1954; B MUS (Victoria) 1975, MA (Stony Brook) 1978. Owen Underhill was raised in Edmonton and Victoria, BC.

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    Ozias Leduc

    After working on the decorative interior of the church of St-Paul-l'Ermite (1892), he landed his first important contract, with Joliette Cathedral, where he completed a group of 23 religious paintings.

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    Painters Eleven

    Painters Eleven was an influential artists’ group from Toronto in the 1950s that helped introduce abstract painting of a kind then popular in New York into the mainstream of Canadian art.

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    Palenai Piano Duo

    Palenai Piano Duo. Established in 1982 in Toronto by pianists Joy Innis and Adrienne Shannon, who had been active as soloists, chamber musicians, vocal accompanists, and teachers.

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    Palmer Cox

    Palmer Cox, caricaturist (b at Granby, Qué, 28 Apr 1840; d there 24 July 1924). At the age of 17 Cox left Granby to work in Massachusetts (1957-59), Ontario (1860-63), California (1873-76) and New York City (1876-1904). He

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    Pamela Anderson

    Pamela Denise Anderson, actor, model, producer (b at Ladysmith, BC 1 July 1967). Pamela Anderson grew up and attended high school in Comox, BC, and moved to Vancouver in 1988.

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    Pamela Anderson Lee (Profile)

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 27, 1995. Partner content is not updated. It is a blistering day on Venice Beach, but that hasn't dissuaded the gawkers. The event that they have come to witness is now part of the Los Angeles beach scene, as firmly entrenched as bikinis and bodybuilders, sand castles and surfboards.

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    Pamela Wallin

     Despite not having any prior journalism or broadcasting experience, Pamela Wallin quickly moved through the ranks of radio, print, and television news media.

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    Gérard Paradis

    Gérard Paradis. Tenor, actor, b Montreal 9 Feb 1921. He studied singing with Céline Marier, Pauline Donalda, Salvator Issaurel, and Albert Cornellier, and piano and solfège with Marie-Thérèse Paquin.

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    Paraskeva Clark

    In addition to her self-portraits, which portray her as a self-possessed, sometimes elegant, woman with a strong physical presence, it is Paraskeva Clark's political paintings and drawings that resonate the most powerfully for viewers who regard art as inextricably linked with social issues and lived experience.

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    Alice Parizeau

    Alice Parizeau, (née Poznanska), journalist, novelist and essayist (born 25 Jul 1930 in Luniniec, Poland; died 30 September 1990 in Montréal). 

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    Parlow String Quartet

    Parlow String Quartet. Founded by Kathleen Parlow shortly after her return to Canada in August 1941 to take up a teaching post at the TCM. As early as 19 Jan 1941, in a letter to Sir Ernest MacMillan, she had expressed her wish to form a quartet.

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