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3 unusual facts about Pelletier


Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier

Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier is the Chief of the Okanese First Nation.

Pelletier

Narcisse Pelletier, Cabin boy abandoned on the coast of Cape York Peninsula in Australia in 1857 and spent 17 years among the Aborigines.

Benoît Pelletier, Quebec Liberal Party minister and MNA in the National Assembly


2013 Cooper Challenger – Doubles

Sharon Fichman and Marie-Ève Pelletier were the defending champions, having won the event in 2012, but Pelletier had retired this year after the 2013 Australian Open.

Angelo Oddi

Oddi has written music for the television programs Sesame Street, Baxter, Overruled (Family/ Disney), Hammerboy, Ice Storm: The Sale and Pelletier Affair, (CTV), Teletoon, Taste Buds (TVO).

Ann Rohmer

She graduated from Branksome Hall in 1976 and worked as a flight attendant for Nordair, during which time she was named Miss Interline and received a trophy from company vice-president Paul Pelletier.

Bertrand Vac

Bertrand Vac was the nom de plume of Quebec novelist and surgeon Aimé Pelletier (b. Aug. 20, 1914, Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, Quebec; d. July 23, 2010, Montreal).

Cathie Pelletier

Pelletier moved to Tennessee where she rented an apartment from an undertaker until she met the country music star Jim Glaser and moved in with him.

Delphine Py-Bilot

Since 2003 Delphine Py represented the club Beauvais Triathlon in the prestigious French Club Championship Series Lyonnaise des Eaux and, apart from Charlotte Morel and Delphine Pelletier she was the only French triathlete in the female team of this club, which almost exclusively relied on its international guest stars like Andrea Hewitt and in 2009 won both the Club Championship Series and the national Club Championship at Gruissan.

Good Shepherd Sisters

The Congregation of the Good Shepherd Sisters was founded by Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier (formerly known as Rose Virginie Pelletier) in Angers, France in 1835, when she broke away from OLC and formed a separate institute.

Place des Arts

The Corporation George-Étienne-Cartier, named in honour of George-Étienne Cartier, a Father of Confederation and opera lover, was set up to build it, and the first part of the complex (including the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier) was inaugurated on September 21, 1963.

Romain-Octave Pelletier I

In 1904 Pelletier became one of the original music faculty members at McGill University where he taught piano up into the latter years of his life.

Saint-Sylvestre, Quebec

The priest of Saint-Sylvestre, Reverend Edmond Pelletier, preached against these "miracles" and in 1949, Archbishop Maurice Roy, in the name of the Archdiocese of Quebec, ruled the affair as a hoax.

Tiglic acid

In 1819 Pelletier and Caventou isolated a peculiar volatile and crystallizable acid from the seeds of Schoenocaulon officinalis, a Mexican plant of family Melanthaceae (also called cevadilla or sabadilla).


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