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Peter Cardew, architect (born 8 June 1939 in Guildford, England; died 26 October 2020 in Vancouver, BC). Cardew immigrated to Canada in 1966 and established his own architectural firm in Vancouver in 1980. Cardew’s architectural projects received critical acclaim and he was the recipient of numerous awards during his career, including the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Gold Medal in 2012. (See also Architecture.)
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Peter Charles Newman (born Peta Karel Neuman), CC, journalist, author, newspaper and magazine editor (born 10 May 1929 in Vienna, Austria; died 7 September 2023 in Belleville, ON). Peter C. Newman was one of Canada’s most prominent journalists, biographers and non-fiction authors. After starting out with the Financial Post, he became editor-in-chief of both the Toronto Star and Maclean’s. His 35 books, which have collectively sold more than two million copies, helped make political reporting and business journalism more personalized and evocative. His no-holds-barred, insiders-tell-all accounts of Canada’s business and political elites earned him a reputation as Canada’s “most cussed and discussed” journalist. A recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, Newman was elected to the Canadian News Hall of Fame in 1992. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1978 and a Companion in 1990.
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His early life and career were marked by a series of geographical displacements. Born in England, Collins developed a passion for French architecture. During World War II, he joined the Yorkshire Hussars as a trooper and served as an intelligence officer in the Middle East and Italy.
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Peter Dale Scott, poet, political scientist, diplomat, teacher (born 11 January 1929 in Montreal, QC). Peter Dale Scott is widely regarded as his generation’s most important English-language political poet. Offering influential commentary on American politics and history, Scott’s poetry blends autobiographical insights with the global themes that also preoccupy his non-fiction work.
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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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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 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 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, CC, broadcaster, writer, editor (born 13 July 1934 in Toronto, ON; died 24 January 2002 in Toronto, ON).
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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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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, CM, teacher, film critic, writer (born 26 July 1931 in Toronto, ON; died 3 July 2014 in Ottawa, ON).
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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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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 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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