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Phil's Pancake House was founded in Calgary, Alberta by Phil Tetrault, 1929-2006. In 1956 he had opened a small coffee shop called Phil's Snack Bar, then in 1960 opened the first Phil's Pancake House on the Trans-Canada Highway (16th Avenue) near Motel Village. The restaurant was an immediate success, and the franchise expanded over the years with Phil's Pancake Houses being established in several other Calgary locations, Banff, Lethbridge, Regina, Kamloops, Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, Saskatoon and Brooks. In the 1970s Tetrault also ran Phil's Chuckwagon Catering, a travelling western-themed food service. Phil's children, Chris Tetrault and Melanie Tetrault-Klapeki, took over the restaurants in 2000. In 2006 there were six restaurants still operating, four in Calgary, one in Banff, and one in Red Deer.

John Phipps, 1852-[ca. 1935], was born in Seagrave, England and moved to Canada in 1881. After working for Sir John Lister-Kaye and service in the 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion), he settled on Horse Creek, northwest of Cochrane, Alberta. He married Agnes Mary Wilson, also of Seagrove, and they had eight children, Herbert, 1875-1875, George, 1876-?, Evelyn, Laura (Perrenoud), Bernard, ?-1884, Emma (Walker), 1882-?, Dora (Hinds), 1890-?, and Vincent. The Walker family moved to the Crossfield area.

Emilio Picariello, 1879-1923, was born in Capriglia, Avellino, Italy. In 1904 he married Marianino Maria Marucci, 1883-1976, who was born in San Marco, D'Cavoti, Italy. They had seven children, Stephano "Steve", 1905-1971, Angelina Rose "Julie", Carmine Mario, 1914-1966, Luigi "Louie", Charles "Chuck", Albert, 1918-1985, and Florence Eleanor "Helen" (Matson), ca. 1922- . The family moved to Fernie, British Columbia in 1911, and subsequently to Blairmore, Alberta, where Emilio's family moved into and ran the Alberta Hotel. He also owned and operated many other businesses in Blairmore. After prohibition became law in Alberta in 1916, he became a bootlegger, running illegal alcohol across the Alberta-British Columbia border through the Crowsnest Pass, and over the foothills from Sweetgrass, Montana. On the afternoon of September 21, 1922 his son, Steve, age 16, suspected of transporting liquor, refused to stop when ordered to do so, and was shot in the hand by Alberta Provincial Police (APP) Constable Steve Lawson. That evening, Emilio and Florence Lassandro (or Filumena Losandro), Mrs. Picariello's housekeeper and nanny to her children, went to see Lawson to get information as to Steve's condition and whereabouts. They were involved in a confrontation with Lawson during which the policeman was killed. Emilio and Florence were convicted of murder and hanged at Fort Saskatchewan jail on May 2, 1923. They are buried in an Edmonton cemetery. There are still doubts about their guilt. For further information see Neil Watson's entry, "Filumena (Florence) Sanfidele Lassandro Costanzo", in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. XV, at <a href="http://www.biographi.ca" target="_blank"> www.biographi.ca</a>.

William Pidruchney, 1900-1959, was born in the western Ukraine, and his family emigrated to Ethelbert, Manitoba while he was a baby. He received a teacher's certificate in Dauphin and a BSc from the University of Manitoba in 1926. He immediately moved to Vegreville, Alberta as a district agriculturalist with the Department of Agriculture. He married Anna M. Rajchyba, 1909- , in 1928 and they had five children. Anna was born in Gimli, Manitoba of immigrant Ukrainian parents, and the family moved to Prelate, Saskatchewan in 1910. She attended Saskatoon Nutana Collegiate and Normal School, and taught near Glaslyn in 1927 and near Chipman in 1928. She taught Ukrainian-language school until her retirement in 1974. She returned to teaching in public schools after William's death, in Vegreville and High Level. In 1960 she took a homestead in Rocky Lake, Alberta, and ran as an independent candidate in the 1962 federal election.

Andrew Craig Pierce, 1884-1955, known as Craig, was born in Pennsylvania, USA, and attended the Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh and Lehigh University in Bethlehem. He travelled extensively in Central America and the United States before he came to Alberta in 1909 as a surveyor with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) near Brooks. Over the following years Pierce spent several months in the Calgary area each summer, but continued his extensive travel in the western USA. In 1918 he purchased a farm near Drumheller and operated it for the remainder of his life, except for a brief residence in Spokane, Washington. He was very active in farm and business organizations and served as president of the Calgary Board of Trade in 1938. He and his wife, Margaret Adele Moore, 1882-1961, had four children, Laura Allison, 1916-1959, Henrietta Torrence "Hetty", 1918-1992, Lucy Adele, 1920-1982, and Mary Margaret, 1921-2005. For further information see "The Theory and Practice of Life Writing : A Group Biography of Adele, Craig, Laura, Henrietta, Lucy and Mary Pierce, 1915-1940" / A. Mary Murphy. -- Memorial University of Newfoundland : unpublished PhD thesis, 2003. See also Pierce : Six Prairie Lives / A. Mary Murphy. -- Calgary : Detselig, 2010.

Frederick R. Pike, [1880s-after 1964], was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland, and began working at the Merchant's Bank at Souris, Manitoba in 1904. He was transferred to Vegreville, Alberta in 1905, to Lacombe in 1907, to Castor in 1909, to Walsh in 1912, to Brooks in 1912, to Redcliff in 1914, and then to Wetaskiwin and Canmore. He finally moved to Winnipeg. He married in 1924 and retired to Victoria, British Columbia in 1946. The Pikes had two children, Kathleen and Rodney.

Richard William Pilling, 1881-1967, was born in Layton, Utah, USA, and came to Alberta with his parents in 1892 to settle near Cardston. He farmed near Spring Coulee for a number of years, later moving to Lethbridge as a real estate broker. In 1926 he moved to Calgary and drilled an oil well at Moose Dome west of Bragg Creek. He retired ca. 1957 and lived in Provo, Utah and Lethbridge. He and his first wife, Edna Galbraith Hyde, had four children, Dorah, Loran, Erva (Stephens) and Mary (Neely). In 1961 he married Leah Holt Jones.