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    Phyllis Munday

    Phyllis Beatrice Munday (née James), CM, mountaineer (born 24 September 1894 in Ceylon [now Sri Lanka]; died 11 April 1990 in Nanaimo, BC). Phyllis Munday was an avid mountaineer, summiting over 100 peaks in her lifetime. She was a pioneer for women in mountaineering and was the first woman to summit Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, among other peaks. She and her husband, Don Munday, surveyed parts of British Columbia’s Coast Mountains and spent almost a decade in pursuit of Mount Waddington. 

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    Phyllis Schuldt

    Phyllis (Mary) Schuldt (b Ward). Pianist, teacher, b Aldershot, England, 10 Apr 1911, d Vancouver 16 Jan 1982; ARCM 1933, GRSM 1934. The daughter of musicians, descended from five generations of oboe players on her father's side, she was taken to live in Vancouver while a child.

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    Phyllis Webb

    Phyllis Webb, OC, poet, broadcaster (born 8 April 1927 in Victoria, BC). An Officer of the Order of Canada and recipient of the Governor General’s Award, Phyllis Webb is a writer of stature in Canadian letters, and a groundbreaking feminist poet.

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    Piano Six

    Piano Six was an association of six pianists that brought low-cost, high-calibre live-concert music performances to small-town and rural Canada, exposing school children and music students to live piano music. Founded in 1994 by pianist Janina Fialkowska — with original members Angela Cheng, Marc-André Hamelin, Angela Hewitt, André Laplante and Jon Kimura Parker — and continued from 2004 to 2010 as Piano Plus, the program reached more than 100,000 Canadians in over 200 communities. The touring program was relaunched in 2017 as Piano Six: New Generation, featuring pianists Daniel Wnukowski, Marika Bournaki, David Jalbert, Angela Park, Ian Parker and Anastasia Rizikov.

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    Piapot

    Piapot (also spelled Payipwat, meaning “One Who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux,” originally named Kisikawasan, meaning “Flash in the Sky”), Cree chief (born in 1816 on the southern prairies; died in 1908 on the Piapot Reserve, SK). During Piapot’s 92 years, he witnessed great changes on the Canadian prairies, including the disappearance of the bison and the settlement of non-Indigenous peoples on Indigenous lands. As chief, Piapot resisted assimilation and strove to uphold Cree customs and traditions.

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    Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

    Pier Giorgio Di Cicco, poet (b at Arezzo, Italy, 5 July 1949). Di Cicco's poetry often reflects the dislocations of his family's life. His hometown of Arezzo was ravaged by World War II and his older brother died from a bomb blast in 1944.

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    Pierick Houdy

    Houdy, Pierick. Composer, organist, pianist, choirmaster, teacher, b Rennes, France, 18 Jan 1929, naturalized Canadian 1976; premier prix composition (Paris Cons) 1954. He began his musical education at seven at the Rennes Cons.

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    Pierre Ayot

    Pierre Ayot, engraver and multidisciplinary artist (b at Montréal 26 Jun 1943; d at Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Qc 2 May 1995). He studied engraving with Albert Dumouchel at Montréal's École des Beaux-arts, where he began teaching in 1963.

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    Pierre Beaudet

    Pierre (Hugues) Beaudet. Pianist, producer, b Thetford-Mines, Que, south of Quebec City, 20 Jan 1924. Brother of Jean-Marie Beaudet. He first studied piano with Léo-Pol Morin in Montreal. At the CMM 1943-6 his teachers were Germaine Malépart (piano) and Gabriel Cusson (ear training).

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    Pierre Béluse

    Pierre Béluse. Percussionist, teacher, b Lachine, near Montreal, 21 Jul 1935. He played 1953-65 in several Montreal nightclubs and studied 1957-9 at the CMM with Saul Goodman and Louis Charbonneau.

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    Pierre Bernier

    Pierre Bernier. Cellist, teacher, b Quebec City 19 Aug 1933. He studied 1948-54 at the CMQ with Walter Joachim, Lucien Plamondon, and Paul Létourneau. He served 1956-66 as a cellist with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra and the CBC Quebec Chamber Orchestra.

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    Pierre Berton

    Pierre Berton, journalist, historian, media personality (b at Whitehorse, YT 12 July 1920; d at Toronto, Ont 30 Nov 2004). Berton was among Canada's best-known writers and was particularly well regarded as a serious popularizer of Canadian history.

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    Pierre Berton on the Klondike Gold Rush

    ​Klondike Gold Rush, touched off by the 16 August 1896 discovery of placer gold (the claim was staked on August 17) on Rabbit (later Bonanza) Creek.

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    Pierre Bertrand

    Pierre Bertrand, author and philosopher (b at Montréal, 1946). Pierre Bertrand, earned a PhD (Philosophy) from the Université de Paris VIII et Paris I. He had a career teaching philosophy at the CÉGEP Édouard-Montpetit in Longueuil on Montréal's south shore, and was a prolific and productive writer.

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    Pierre Bertrand

    Pierre Bertrand. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, b Montreal 11 Aug 1938. From 1973 to 1977 he composed, sang, and played bass guitar as a member of the group Beau Dommage, composing several hits ('Tous les palmiers,' 'Le Picbois,' 'Rouler la nuit,') and making records.

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