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Authority record- CA QUA01823
- Person
- 1915-1986
Pat Pearce (1915-1986) was born Maire Patricia Finlay in Belfast, N. Ireland. Trained as a secretary in Fleet Street, she was working in journalism in Britain at the time of the Second World War. She came to Canada in the second year of the war. She began as a book reviewer and drama critic with the Montreal Herald newspaper in 1951. She soon moved to radio and television reviews and, in 1957, joined the Montreal Star as radio and television reviewer with her own column. In 1968 the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (original title) was set up to monitor broadcasting and licensing. Pat was one of the first four full-time commissioners appointed in April 1968. The initial appointment was for four years. Pat was reappointed in April 1975 and resigned in April 1979. Pat Pearce early developed an interest in community broadcasting, especially in northern Canada, and by the aboriginal peoples. She chaired some of the earliest public hearings in the North West Territories. On her retirement Pat Pearce returned to Ireland where she died in 1986.
- CA QUA11887
- Person
- fl. 1937
W.H. Peacock was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
- CA QUA11477
- Person
- -24 Nov. 1797
James Peachey was a surveyor, draughtsman, army officer, and artist; probably of British origin; d. 24 Nov. 1797, likely in Martinique. On 3 Oct. 1787 Peachey obtained an ensign’s commission in the 60th Foot under Haldimand’s command. He arrived at Quebec in August 1788 to join the 1st battalion, then mustered at Niagara. By 1790 the 60th had moved to the Montreal region, and Peachey worked under Holland as a deputy provincial surveyor. He was required to amend earlier plans and surveys and to make new ones, including a survey of the rivers St Lawrence and Ottawa above Repentigny in 1793; some of these were compiled into larger plans. On 31 Oct. 1793 he was promoted lieutenant and transferred to the 7th Foot, then stationed at Quebec. A year later the regiment moved to Halifax and in 1795 returned to England. Peachey was made captain 29 July 1795 and transferred to the 43rd Foot on 2 Feb. 1797. His death that year was likely due to an epidemic which decimated the regiment while posted in Martinique.
- CA QUA10030
- Corporate body
- 3 Nov. 1969
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor. It is a nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational television programming to public television stations in the United States.