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    Peter Dickinson

    Dickinson's modernism was of the same patterned and picturesque mode exemplified by the Festival of Britain in 1951. He built economically and with flair, excelling at apartment and office buildings designed to restricted budgets, and for low fees.

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    Peter Douglas Rose

    In 1977 he completed, with James Righter and Peter Lanken, Pavilion Soixante-Dix, a ski pavilion in St. Sauveur, Qué, which was the only Canadian work included in Charles Jencks's The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977) and received a 1978 Progressive Architecture Design Award.

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    Peter Easton

    Peter Easton, privateer, pirate (born c. 1570 in England; died c. 1620). Easton visited Newfoundland in 1602, a year before becoming a pirate. He returned to Newfoundland in 1612 and built a fort at Harbour Grace. Easton plundered Basque, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese ships on the Newfoundland coast, in Puerto Rico and at the Azores islands. When pardoned by the English King James I, Easton purchased a castle in Savoy where he lived a life of leisure.

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    Peter Erasmus

    Peter Erasmus, interpreter (b at Red River Colony [Man] 27 June 1833; d at Whitefish Lk, Alta 28 May 1931). Of Danish-Cree parentage, he studied to become an Anglican clergyman, but was drawn to the free life farther west.

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    Peter Fidler

    Peter Fidler, fur trader, mapmaker, explorer (b at Bolsover, Eng 16 Aug 1769; d at Fort Dauphin [Man] 17 Dec 1822). 

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    Peter Goddard

    Peter Darwin Goddard, music writer (born 13 July 1943 in Toronto, ON; died 23 March 2022 in Toronto). B MUS (Toronto) 1967, M MUS (Toronto) 1971. 

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    Peter Gzowski

    Peter Gzowski, CC, broadcaster, writer, editor (born 13 July 1934 in Toronto, ON; died 24 January 2002 in Toronto, ON).

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    Peter Gzowski: Maclean's 1995 Honor Roll

    Still, at 61, Gzowski finds it increasingly difficult to shuck the celebrity baggage of the guy on the radio whose halting smoky tones are hailed as one of the invisible threads binding a fractious country into a sense of belonging.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 18, 1995

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    Peter Hannan

    Hannan, Peter. Composer, recorder player, b Montreal 19 Mar 1953; B MUS (British Columbia) 1975, Certificate of Advanced Studies (GSM) 1978. He studied recorder 1979-80 with Kees Boeke at the Sweelinck Cons under a Netherlands government scholarship and lived 1984-5 in London.

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    Peter Harcourt

    Peter Harcourt, CM, teacher, film critic, writer (born 26 July 1931 in Toronto, ON; died 3 July 2014 in Ottawa, ON).

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    Peter Hatch

    Hatch, Peter. Composer, administrator, teacher, b Toronto 18 May 1957, B MUS (Toronto) 1980, M MUS (Toronto) 1982, DMA (British Columbia) 1986. He began his studies at University of Toronto as a bassoon performer, but switched to a concentration in composition.

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    Peter Hemingway

    Hemingway believed that the Prairies needed simple yet striking forms to provide a foil to the otherwise overwhelming landscape. He wrote: "The most powerfully original buildings in the post-war era have come from here (the Prairies).

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    Peter Henderson Bryce

    Peter Henderson Bryce, physician, public health official (born 17 August 1853 in Mount Pleasant, Canada West; died 15 January 1932 at sea). Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce was a pioneer of public health and sanitation policy in Canada. He is most remembered for his efforts to improve the health and living conditions of Indigenous people. His Report on the Indian Schools of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories exposed the unsanitary conditions of residential schools in the Prairie provinces. It also prompted national calls for residential school reform. Click here for definitions of key terms used in this article.

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    Peter Herrndorf

    Peter Alexander Herrndorf, CC, OOnt, lawyer, journalist, publisher, media executive (born 27 October 1940 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands; died 18 February 2023 in Toronto, ON). Media mogul Peter Herrndorf has been called the “godfather of Canadian arts” for his long career in developing Canadian news media and the performing arts. He started his career as a journalist at the CBC, working his way up to become vice-president and general manager of English radio and television (1979–83). He was then the publisher of Toronto Life magazine (1983–92), chairman and CEO of TVOntario (1992–99), and president and CEO of the National Arts Centre (1999–2018). Committed to the development of the arts in Canada, he was also involved in the creation of many awards, festivals and foundations.

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    Peter Huse

    Peter (Franklin) Huse. Composer, poet, teacher, b Gadsby, Alta 12 Mar 1938; B MUS (British Columbia) 1963, MFA (Princeton) 1965.

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