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Pictou Academy Debating Society.

  • Corporate body
Pictou Academy was founded in 1816 by the Reverend Thomas McCulloch. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a liberal nonsectarian college, a grammar school, an academy and then a secondary school. A debating society was founded in 1908.

Pictou Literary and Scientific Society.

  • Corporate body

The Pictou Literary and Scientific Society was established by a group of Pictou residents on December 8, 1834 with the aim of improving the members' knowledge of science and literature through weekly lectures and discussions. The officers of the society, as stated in the 1836 "Rules of the Pictou Literary and Scientific Society," included a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary and treasurer, and a four-person management committee.

The society’s lectures covered a range of topics reflecting the knowledge and interests of its membership, with the exceptions of religion and politics. Among the notable speakers welcomed by the society were Dr. Thomas McCulloch and a young William Dawson.The society drew to a close due to waning interest and held its last meeting on April 12, 1855.

Piercey, Sheila Kathleen

  • Person
  • 1933-2019

Sheila Piercy was an opera singer, voice teacher and philanthropist, who supported aspiring artists and the performing arts in Nova Scotia and across Canada. Born on 18 November 1933 to Lilian MacKinnon and Reginald Piercy, she began singing at a young age under the tutelage of her mother. She attended Halifax Ladies College and toured with a ballet company and skating show before studying at Dalhousie University from 1951-1954, where she was active in sports and the Dalhousie Glee and Dramatic Society and King’s College Dramatic and Choral Society.

After studying voice in Halifax under Leonard Mayoh, she moved to Toronto in 1956 to take up a scholarship at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto opera program. Mentored by Ernesto Vinci, she began life as a professional soprano with the Canadian Opera Company (COC) in 1958, where she stayed for the next 13 years. In addition to her work with the COC, Sheila Piercy performed regularly on the CBC and at the Banff Centre, Stratford Festival, Rainbow Stage and Charlottetown Festival. After retiring from the COC in 1971, she moved back to Nova Scotia, and from 1977 -1982 she taught voice at Dalhousie University. She was a key supporter of Dalhousie's Performing Arts Campaign, and her gift of $1.5 million honoured some of her mentors through the naming of the Ernesto Vinci Studio and Leonard and Doris Mayoh Studio. A third studio, the Sheila K. Piercey Rehearsal Studio, provides a rehearsal space for students. She died on 20 May 2019.

Piercy, Terry

  • Person
Terry Piercy became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because their video recording “Golfball Suspended in Space” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Pike, Pam

  • Person
Pam Pike became is a Halifax-based interdisciplinary artist. Pike became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1986 because of their video recording entitled “The absence of us” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Pilot.

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Pilsworth, Graham

  • Person
Graham Pilsworth is a Canadian cartoonist who has worked for a number of national and regional newspapers. Pilsworth has worked at The Toronto Star as a political cartoonist, and has contributed to Saturday Night, Maclean’s and The Coast. Pilsworth has also published books featuring his cartoons.

Pincott, Brian

  • Person
Brian Pincott is a lighting designer and politician. He is the production and lighting manager at Alberta Theatre Projects and was previously a city councilor in Calgary, Alberta for ten years (2007-2017). He studied at Acadia University from 1980 until 1986. He has worked with various other Canadian theatre companies, including Theatre Calgary, Tarragon Theatre, and Neptune Theatre.

Pink, Ruth Marilyn (Goodman)

  • Person
  • 1915-2014
Ruth Marilyn Goodman was born on 23 May 1915 to Jeanette and Solomon Goodman. She attended Dalhousie University, graduating with a BSc in 1936. She married Dalhousie alumni Irving Pink (BA, 1934; LLB, 1936) and had four sons. They lived in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, where Ruth Goodman Pink supported the YMCA and the Yarmouth Hospital with fundraising campaigns. She was also active in the Jewish community, serving as national vice president of Hadassah WIZO Canada. The Irving and Ruth Pink Award for Youth Development and Social Justice was first awarded in 2016 to celebrate the couple's legacy of public service and advocacy.

Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre

  • Corporate body
  • 1991-
Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) was founded in April 1991 by Wanda Graham to support playwrights from the Atlantic region by assisting in the development of plays, promoting new plays, maintaining a script library and online catalogue, and more. PARC began with a Playwrights Colony, home delivery program, and eventually a newsletter. PARC helped initiate the National Network of Playwrights’ Development Centres in 2002 and the PARC Library of Atlantic Canadian Scripts opened in 2007 at Mount Allison University.

Poburko, Nicholas

  • Person
  • [19--]
Nicholas Poburko graduated from Fordham University with a BA in English Language and Literature/Letters and from Harvard University with a PhD in the same subject. He taught in the English department at Dalhousie in the 1970s, and has been the managing editor of Arion, a distinguished classics journal published by Boston University, since 1998.

Poirier, Benoit F.

  • Person
  • 1882-1965
Benoît Fidèle Poirier (17 October 1882 – 7 October 1965) was a Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. His compositional output consists of several motets, patriotic songs, and works for solo piano and organ, the latter being the most significant and popular.

Poitras, Diane

  • Person
Diane Poitras is a Quebecois filmmaker and teaches documentary film at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Poitras became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1991 because her video recording “Lorsque Cesse le Vacarme” became a part of the centre’s tape collection .

Polkaholics

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Polkaholics became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1980s because their sound recording “Believers Voice of Victory” became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Pollard, Matt

  • Person
Matt Pollard became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 2009 because their video recording became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Pontchartrain, Louis Phélypeaux, comte de, 1643-1727

  • Person
  • 1643-1727
Louis Phélypeaux (1643-1727), Comte de Ponchartrain, was Chancellor of France and became Secretary of the Marine in 1690, on the death of De Seignelay. Cf. Nouveau Larousse Illustré.

Pope, Doug

  • Person
Doug Pope became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in the 1984 because of their involvement in the video recording entitled “Indifferent city” which became a part of the centre’s tape collection.

Popular Projects

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Popular Projects is a non-profit society dedicated to using theatre and performance for social change. Popular Projects is commonly associated with Commercial Culture. Structured as advertisements, Commercial Culture uses satire to expose the dire effects of increased state intervention on the arts. Commercial Culture was produced for a National Forum on Canadian Culture.

Porter, Cathy

  • Person
Cathy Porter is a Halifax-based keyboardist and percussionist musician. Since performing professionally beginning in 1989, Porter has performed extensively nationally and internationally. Cathy Porter was awarded the Musician’s Achievement Award at the 2013 East coast Music Awards. Porter became associated with the Centre for Art Tapes in 1991 through her involvement on a video tape recording entitled “Souls in the Rinse Cycle”.

Porter, Doug

  • Person
Doug Porter is a Halifax based artist and has been working with media and video mediums since the 1980s. Porter has exhibited artworks internationally. Porter is an instructor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax.

Pothier, Hector

  • Person
  • 1891-1976
Hector Pothier was a physician and politician born in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, in 1891. He received his early education at the local school in Eel Brook before studying at St. Anne's College in Digby County and graduating from Dalhousie Medical School in 1919. During World War One, Dr. Pothier served as a medical surgeon in the Army Medical Corps, then took post-graduate studies at St. Vincent Hospital in New York City, returning to Weymouth, Nova Scotia, in 1920 to set up a medical practice. He was affiliated with several community organizations and was elected MLA for the municipality of Clare in 1963. He served for four years, during which time he retired his medical practice and settled in Beaver River. He died in 1976.

Potter, Jacob, Captain, b. 1844

  • Person
Jacob Potter was born ca. 1844 and married Laura J. Cox in 1868. He was a master mariner who lived in Canning, Nova Scotia.

Potter, John Henry, fl. 1886

  • Person
John Henry Potter was born in Canning, Nova Scotia, in 1849. He received his certificate of competency as a master mariner in 1886. Along with his father and brothers, he commanded locally-built (Canning, Kingsport, Scotts Bay) ships such as the Boniform, Blomidon, Providence, and Habitant.
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