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In 1940, Orpheum Theatre manager Ivan Ackery told big-band leader Dal Richards that he should check out a 13-year-old female singer.

“I said, ‘Ivan, that’s not the kind of image I want, thank you very much,’ ” Richards recounted in 2013. “He said, ‘Just listen to her.’ So I listened to her, and she sang, There’ll Always Be an England. This was wartime, and she brought the house down.”

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Juliette Sysak began singing with Richards at Vancouver’s top nightspot, the Panorama Roof, atop the Hotel Vancouver. And her career took off.

She would become Canada’s most popular female vocalist in the late 1950s and early ’60s, the host of a CBC-TV show that had the coveted Saturday night slot after Hockey Night in Canada.

From coast-to-coast-to-coast, she was known as Our Pet, Juliette.

In recent years she has been living in quiet retirement in a South Granville condo. This spring she moved into a care home, and Oct. 26, died at age 91.

“She had no major illnesses,” said her friend, Gordon Boyd. “She just simply slipped away Thursday night. It was really very peaceful.”

She was born Juliette Augustina Sysak on Aug. 27, 1926, in St. Vital, Man., and started singing early — at seven, she won a talent contest singing the depression-era ballad, Buddy Can You Spare a Dime?, dressed as a boy.

Her family moved to Vancouver when she was 10 and she grew up in Kitsilano. She made so much money singing with Richards that she bought a fur coat to wear to high school.

In 1943-44 she relocated to Toronto to sing on a national CBC Radio show hosted by Alan Young. After moving back to Vancouver, she appeared on the Burns Chuckwagon radio show with the Rhythm Pals, recording a trio of country and western 78s for Al Reusch’s Aragon label.

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Her talent and star quality led to interest from the U.S. via MCA, the giant talent agency and record company. But she opted to stay in Vancouver and marry musician Tony Cavazzi, who became her manager.

In 1954 she was approached by American big-band leader Harry James to be his singer for a gig at the Hollywood Palladium. James was a star — Frank Sinatra was one of his old singers. But she turned him down.

“There was lots of glory but no money, and work only on a week-to-week basis,” said Juliette, who was known for speaking her mind. “I just couldn’t see it.”

She wound up moving to Toronto, where she appeared on the CBC-TV show Holiday Ranch and then Billy O’Connor’s Late Show. In 1956 she was given her own show, Juliette, which ran until 1966.

A 1957 Province story by Ben Metcalfe, one of the founders of Greenpeace, says that she made $450 per week for her TV show, which was sponsored by Players Cigarettes. She also did live shows across the country, like a gig at an auto show in Winnipeg that drew 16,700 people to the Winnipeg Arena.

She was known for her dramatic entrances and glitzy gowns, and for the wholesomeness of her show, which she always ended by saying goodnight to her mother back in Vancouver.

Between 1969 and 1975 she was host of two CBC-TV talk shows, After Noon and Juliette and Friends, as well as the CBC Radio show Talent Scope. She moved back to Vancouver in 1972, but often went back east for work, telling The Vancouver Sun’s George Daacon in 1976, “if you’re not working in Toronto, you’re just not working.”

Sadly, her husband Tony developed Alzheimer’s and died in 1988. Several years later she started dating another former member of the Richards band, Ray Smith, who had become the president of MacMillan Bloedel. They were together for four years before Smith died in 2005.

She was named to the Order of Canada in 1975, and became a member of the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1994.

She rarely performed after the 1990s.

“The last time was at the Orpheum,” said Boyd. “She did a Remembrance Day celebration with Dal Richards several years ago.”

Many people asked her why she stopped performing. “Her expression was that was then, this is now,” said Boyd.

A celebration of her life will be held at a later date. For information, email [email protected] .

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“Juliette” Cavazzi Juliette (1927-2017)

Year Born:  1927

Year Died:  2017

Juliette, “Juliette” Cavazzi  (1927- )

She was born Juliette Augustina Sysak in Winnipeg. Her married name was Cavazzi – she married musician Tony Cavazzi who was also her manager. But she used only her first name on stage from 1940 when she sang as a young teen with the Dal Richards band at the Panorama Roof at the Hotel Vancouver.

Juliette was introduced to Dal by Ivan Ackery who heard her sing at the Kitsilano Showboat. He operated the Orpheum Theatre and had invited Dal to play for 45 minutes between movies. Dal asked Juliette to sing and she brought the Orpheum crowd to its feet with a standing ovation for There’ll Always Be An England.

Juliette and Tony moved in 1954 to Toronto where she had earlier appeared on the Alan Young radio show. Now she appeared as a guest on Holiday Ranch and sang on The Billy O’Connor Show on CBC-TV. There was friction as she built her popularity and in two years Juliette broke away from the show and took its Saturday time slot.

She was introduced by announcer Gil Christie as “Your Pet, Juliette” and her shows and songs were conservative and wholesome. Her set represented her living room and she addressed her audience as guests, greeting them with “Hi there, everybody,” and ending with “Goodnight, Mom.” Her popularity continued to grow. In early years the show included Bobby Gimby on the trumpet and singing, and male singers billed as Juliette’s escorts. From 1959 to 1965 the show included the Four Romeos – Rick Stainsby, Alex Ticknovich, Vern Kennedy, and John Garden – and from 1960 to 1964 the Four Mice – Diane Gibson, Sylvia Wilson, Angela Antonelli, and Carol Hill. The show’s final season was 1966, when Juliette was joined by the Art Hallman Singers. In the final year the show made an effort to attract a younger audience by also featuring performers appearing in current shows and concerts.

After 1966, Juliette made regular CBC appearances in specials and she returned for the 1974 season in a daily, half-hour talk show Juliette and Friends.

In 1975, living in Vancouver, Juliette Cavazzi was made a Member of the Order of Canada.

In 1999 she was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame which pays tribute to Canadian stars by placing their names on cement stars in the sidewalk in Toronto’s Theatre District.

Juliette Cavazzi died in Vancouver on October 26th 2017.

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VANCOUVER — One of the pioneering performers on Canadian television in the 1950s and ’60s has died.

Friends and family confirmed to the CBC that Juliette Cavazzi — who performed professionally under only her first name — died overnight Thursday in Vancouver at the age of 91.

Cavazzi, born in St. Vital, Man., headlined the wholesome CBC musical variety program “The Juliette Show” for 10 years beginning in 1956, where she was introduced at the top of each episode as “your pet, Juliette.”

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The Canadian Encyclopedia called it “one of Canada’s most popular television shows” of the day, regularly ranking just behind “Hockey Night in Canada” and the national news, thanks in large part to Cavazzi’s “folksy pop style and easy rapport with an audience.”

“She was a warm lady. You couldn’t help but like her,” legendary disc jockey Red Robinson told the CBC.

“She made it at a time when we really didn’t allow stars in the Canadian broadcast system. And yet, she ended up with a show right after the NHL hockey games, and it became an outrageous success.

“Juliette really brought a lot to Canadian culture and it’s gonna be sad not having her around.”

She was named a member of the Order of Canada and was honoured on Canada’s Walk of Fame.

Her career began in Vancouver, where she had moved with her family when she was 10, and continued in Toronto where appeared on CBC radio and television.

After the cancellation of “The Juliette Show,” Cavazzi hosted a CBC afternoon talk show in the 1970s.

She retired to Vancouver.

She once admitted that if she had a chance to do it all again, she would have chosen a career in the chorus instead of as a solo star.

“When you’re no longer front and centre, it hurts,” she told CBC talk show host Bob McLean in 1980.

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Early Years

Juliette Sysak was born in suburban Winnipeg to Polish-Ukrainian parents. She sang at the local Ukrainian hall and won a number of amateur singing contests before her family moved to Vancouver when she was 10. After singing at the Kitsilano Showboat, she began performing with Dal Richards' s orchestra at the Hotel Vancouver at age 13, under the stage name Juliette. At 15, she made her  ​CBC  network debut on George Calangis' s radio program Sophisticated Strings .

Early Radio and Television Career

After spending 1943–44 in Toronto , where she appeared on Alan Young's CBC Radio show and with Lucio Agostini 's orchestra, she returned to Vancouver and sang on many other CBC Radio programs, including Burns Chuckwagon (a country music show with the Rhythm Pals ), and Here's Juliette . She also appeared at Theatre Under the Stars .

She married musician Tony Cavazzi, who became her manager, and in 1954 the two moved to Toronto, where she co-starred with Gino Silvi on CBC Radio's Gino and Juliette . She was also a featured guest on CBC TV’s Holiday Ranch and a regular performer — introduced as “our pet Juliette” — on Billy O'Connor 's The Late Show (1954–56).

In 1956, Juliette became host of the long-running Saturday night music variety program, Juliette (1956–66), succeeding O’Connor’s Late Show on CBC TV. It was one of the broadcaster’s most popular shows of the day, regularly ranking behind only Hockey Night in Canada and the national news in viewership. As the program followed Hockey Night in Canada , it was often shortened or extended depending on when the hockey game ended, adding an extra layer of spontaneity to the live show. The wholesome, conservative program took place on a living room set and featured Juliette beginning each episode with “Hi there, everybody” and ending it with “Goodnight, Mom.”

Juliette was joined regularly  on the show  by other singers. In the 1950s, she was accompanied by a male singer, who was introduced as her “escort” for the evening ( George Murray , 1956–57; Roy Roberts, 1957–58; and Ken Steele, 1958–59). Later, her guests included the male vocal quartet the Romeos (1959–65) and the female vocal group the Four Mice (1960–64). The show's music directors were, successively, Bobby Gimby (1956–59), Bill Isbister (1959–65) and Lucio Agostini (1965–66).

Of Juliette's popularity, Antony Ferry wrote in the Toronto Daily Star : “Her specialty is being ‘just folks’... In a pop medium bedecked with tinsel and phony charm, Juliette retains at least the illusion of old home-body simplicity.” The  ​Montreal Gazette  added that, “Our Pet Juliette represents the last word in a plain, uncluttered, ordinary performing style — cheerful, happy ordinariness.”

Despite her popularity with the public, Juliette generally received little love from critics, who typically dismissed her as bland. The  ​Globe and Mail ’s television critic, Dennis Braithwaite, wrote in 1965 that her show exhibited “an unexciting format, uninspired production, bad writing, unglamorous costuming and a drab image of wholesomeness.” Her show was still ranked in the Top 10 when it fell prey to a new CBC ratings system and was cancelled in 1966.

Later Career

After appearing in a number of TV and radio specials, Juliette hosted the CBC TV talk shows After Noon (1969–71) and Juliette and Friends (1973–75). She began winding down her career in the 1980s, retiring to Vancouver and performing at occasional benefits and nostalgia shows. As of 1999 she was still singing regularly with the  Dal Richards  orchestra in Vancouver.

Juliette recorded two 78s for RCA's “X” label and one with the Rhythm Pals for Aragon in the early 1950s. She later made three LPs for RCA Camden: Juliette (1968), Juliette’s Christmas World (1968) and Juliette’s Country World (1969). She also appeared on a recording of Dolores Claman 's musical comedy Timber! (1954) and the compilation album The Saga of Canadian Country and Folk Music (1972).

A version of this entry originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada .

Member, Order of Canada (1975)

Inductee, BC Entertainment Hall of Fame (1994)

Inductee, Canada’s Walk of Fame (1999)

Further Reading

Alex Barris, The Pierce-Arrow Showroom Is Leaking: An Insider’s View of the C.B.C. (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1969).

External Links

Frank Ifield and Juliette duet 1968 A duet with Frank Ifield and Juliette in a vintage 1968 CBC "Show of the Week" clip. From YouTube.

Juliette A biography of popular Canadian television personality Juliette from the Manitoba Music Museum.

'Your pet, Juliette' revisited Watch a 1980 CBC TV interview in which Juliette talks about the early years of her show business career.

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Canadian television pioneer ‘Your pet Juliette’ dies at 91 in Vancouver

By News Staff

Posted October 27, 2017 7:07 pm.

Last Updated October 27, 2017 7:40 pm.

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VANCOUVER – One of the pioneering performers on Canadian television in the 1950s and ’60s has died.

Friends and family confirmed to the CBC that Juliette Cavazzi — who performed professionally under only her first name — died overnight Thursday in Vancouver at the age of 91.

Cavazzi, born in St. Vital, Man., headlined the wholesome CBC musical variety program “The Juliette Show” for 10 years beginning in 1956, where she was introduced at the top of each episode as “your pet, Juliette.”

The Canadian Encyclopedia called it “one of Canada’s most popular television shows” of the day, regularly ranking just behind “Hockey Night in Canada” and the national news, thanks in large part to Cavazzi’s “folksy pop style and easy rapport with an audience.”

“She was a warm lady. You couldn’t help but like her,” legendary disc jockey Red Robinson told the CBC.

“She made it at a time when we really didn’t allow stars in the Canadian broadcast system. And yet, she ended up with a show right after the NHL hockey games, and it became an outrageous success.

“Juliette really brought a lot to Canadian culture and it’s gonna be sad not having her around.”

She was named a member of the Order of Canada and was honoured on Canada’s Walk of Fame.

Her career began in Vancouver, where she had moved with her family when she was 10, and continued in Toronto where appeared on CBC radio and television.

After the cancellation of “The Juliette Show,” Cavazzi hosted a CBC afternoon talk show in the 1970s.

She retired to Vancouver.

She once admitted that if she had a chance to do it all again, she would have chosen a career in the chorus instead of as a solo star.

“When you’re no longer front and centre, it hurts,” she told CBC talk show host Bob McLean in 1980.

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Canadian television pioneer ‘Your pet Juliette’ dies at 91 in Vancouver

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Posted October 27, 2017 10:07 pm.

Last Updated October 27, 2017 10:40 pm.

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VANCOUVER – One of the pioneering performers on Canadian television in the 1950s and ’60s has died.

Friends and family confirmed to the CBC that Juliette Cavazzi — who performed professionally under only her first name — died overnight Thursday in Vancouver at the age of 91.

Cavazzi, born in St. Vital, Man., headlined the wholesome CBC musical variety program “The Juliette Show” for 10 years beginning in 1956, where she was introduced at the top of each episode as “your pet, Juliette.”

The Canadian Encyclopedia called it “one of Canada’s most popular television shows” of the day, regularly ranking just behind “Hockey Night in Canada” and the national news, thanks in large part to Cavazzi’s “folksy pop style and easy rapport with an audience.”

“She was a warm lady. You couldn’t help but like her,” legendary disc jockey Red Robinson told the CBC.

“She made it at a time when we really didn’t allow stars in the Canadian broadcast system. And yet, she ended up with a show right after the NHL hockey games, and it became an outrageous success.

“Juliette really brought a lot to Canadian culture and it’s gonna be sad not having her around.”

She was named a member of the Order of Canada and was honoured on Canada’s Walk of Fame.

Her career began in Vancouver, where she had moved with her family when she was 10, and continued in Toronto where appeared on CBC radio and television.

After the cancellation of “The Juliette Show,” Cavazzi hosted a CBC afternoon talk show in the 1970s.

She retired to Vancouver.

She once admitted that if she had a chance to do it all again, she would have chosen a career in the chorus instead of as a solo star.

“When you’re no longer front and centre, it hurts,” she told CBC talk show host Bob McLean in 1980.

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Singer Juliette Cavazzi was an early star of Canadian television

The glamorous vocalist with a girl-next-door appeal became one of the country's highest-paid performers

Juliette Cavazzi appeared on a live eponymous broadcast every Saturday following Hockey Night in Canada, an enviable time slot, but one requiring significant flexibility and improvisation.

This article was published more than 6 years ago. Some information may no longer be current.

A warm voice and wholesome presence made Juliette one of Canada's earliest television stars, a household figure known throughout the land by only her first name.

She appeared on a live eponymous broadcast every Saturday following Hockey Night in Canada , an enviable time slot but one that came with an uncertain start time and a script needing improvisation on the fly.

As a harp was lightly strummed, off-camera announcer Gil Christie intoned, "And, now, here's your pet, Joo-oo-liette!" Onto the small, black-and-white screen strolled a singer with a stylish, blonde bouffant, a confident smile on her face, her form adorned in an elegant dress, the colour of which she was careful to describe to viewers. The singer, who has died in Vancouver at the age of 91, was flirty but never ribald. Despite the glamour, she performed without pretension, a girl-next-door sharing her talent for an adoring public with whom she had a relaxed rapport. She had her detractors, to be sure, and when one or two of the 50 letters she received weekly criticized her, she made a point of writing back.

Juliette's repertoire included standards and show tunes, so by the mid-1960s, she seemed an anachronism to the entertainment brass at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. The Juliette Show , still high in the ratings, was abruptly cancelled, although the singer continued to perform on variety-show specials for many years afterward. She also hosted an afternoon television talk show called Juliette and Friends .

"If I had to do it all over again, I would probably prefer to be a group singer in the background of a show where you don't have to be front and centre all the time," she told the CBC's Bob McLean in 1980. "Because when you are no longer front and centre, it hurts."

She was invariably described as "our pet Juliette," a moniker she came to resent for its patronizing quality. She was not one to allow male directors to run roughshod. Known in her heyday for being a problematic and troublesome figure on set, she is more properly regarded as a performer who insisted on taking charge of her career.

To be Juliette was to play a role, one that she relinquished only on death. She never appeared in public without hair coiffed and makeup on. Even in retirement, she possessed a room-stopping star quality on entering a classy restaurant. A daughter of Polish-Ukrainian immigrants and from a working-class family, she succeeded in spending her adult years as a diva.

Juliette Augustina Sysak (pronounced SIZE-ack) was born on Aug. 27, 1926, at St. Vital, which has since been amalgamated into Winnipeg. (Some sources give a birthdate making her 364 days younger, an error she was in no rush to correct, according to her friend Lynne Triffon.) Juliette was the second daughter born to Anna (née Kolbuck), who was born in Poland, and Fred Sysak, who emigrated from the Austrian-Hungarian Empire. Mr. Sysak worked as a cook for Canadian Pacific Railway.

As a girl, Juliette was a tomboy who repeated songs she heard on the radio, impressing her mother with her ability to remember lyrics. "I was a show-off from the time I could speak," she said in a 2002 biographical documentary. She won a neighbourhood contest by singing the popular Depression tune Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? while dressed as a boy urchin.

The family moved to Vancouver when Juliette was seven. Her older sister desired a singing career and the parents encouraged both daughters in pursuing their dream. By 13, Juliette was performing patriotic songs at the Kitsilano Showboat, an outdoor venue at a Vancouver beach.

One who caught her act was Ivan Ackery, manager of the downtown Orpheum Theatre. When he soon after hired band leader Dal Richards, the King of Swing, to perform music between screenings, he suggested he hire the undiscovered singer. Not wanting to be a nursemaid, Mr. Richards balked. Mr. Ackery insisted. The band leader changed his mind after witnessing her bring down the house with a rendition of There'll Always Be an England . He then added her as a vocalist for his band's performances at the glamorous Rooftop Panorama at the nearby Hotel Vancouver, suggesting, according to his 2009 memoir, that she drop her Slavic surname, leaving only the romantic appellation by which she would forever after be known.

The girl vocalist cycled to late afternoon practices, the uniformed doorman parking her bicycle. For evening performances, a band member picked her up by car and then delivered her home. A correspondent for Downbeat magazine caught her act, noting "she's got more natural-born charm than most chirpers twice her age." By the following winter, she was making more money than her father and wearing a fur coat to classes.

After two years, she was replaced by another singer, whom Mr. Richards would marry. ("I'm the only singer Dal had that he didn't marry," she later quipped. " Au contraire ," he responded. He only married two of a dozen.)

At 15, she made her national network debut on CBC Radio, then spent two war years performing in Toronto. The summer the war ended, she was the star singer backed by Doug Raymond and his orchestra at the Happyland Ballroom on the grounds of the Pacific National Exhibition. It was there she met her future husband, Tony Cavazzi, a musician born in Kamloops, B.C., and the son of an immigrant Italian labourer. They married on July 7, 1948, at Christ Church Cathedral in Vancouver, a venue selected for having the longest aisle for her bridal procession.

A longstanding gig at the Palomar Supper Club, where patrons purchased ice and mix to be topped up with brown-bagged liquor, and regular appearances on CBC Radio made her a hometown star with a devoted following.

Once again in Toronto, she launched her television career. She was a guest on Holiday Ranch and a featured singer on The Billy O'Connor Show , which aired following Hockey Night in Canada . She proved such a success, despite tensions with the host, that she took over the time slot within a year.

‘Our Pet’, Juliette was the Queen of Canadian television in the 1950s and 60s. But beneath the glamour was a tough-minded trailblazer who became a nightclub singer at the tender age of 13.

The set was made to look like a living room. Music was provided by the trumpeter Bobby Gimby and, later, the Bill Isbister Orchestra. Her backup vocal groups included the Romeos, an all-male quartet, and the all-female Four Mice. Guests included singers such as Robert Goulet, baton twirlers, ventriloquists, Ukrainian dancers, Hawaiian orchestras, the impersonator Rich Little and the comic duo Wayne and Shuster.

By the early 1960s, she was earning $50,000 a year, making her one of Canada's highest-paid performers. Her husband handled the finances, but she managed her own career.

Rehearsing even as the hockey game was being aired, she completed a streak of 173 consecutive performances before an attack of pleurisy sent her to a sick bed. In the summer, she toured the land, performing at such venues as the Rancho Don Carlos in Winnipeg, billed as "Canada's most lavish theatre restaurant."

Not surprisingly, the same homespun qualities that earned Juliette her large fan base also alienated more sophisticated critics. Variety magazine thought her music insipid enough to describe her as the Florence Welk of Canada, while Toronto Star critic Dennis Braithwaite bristled at what he considered a lazy, inoffensive show. "A healthy girl who can sing," he wrote in 1959, "Juliette personifies the wholesome sex-appeal that us corn-fed Canadians are supposed to go for." Chatelaine magazine published an article headlined, Everyone hates Juliette but her fans.

After a decade, she was an institution, but soon after the end of the 1965-66 hockey season, the CBC announced it was cancelling the show. Her fans were promised the star would soon return with special programs, although these would be fewer than expected.

In 1968, Juliette served as host of the hour-long variety program Show of the Week , a CBC response to such American musical pop variety programs as Shindig! and Hullabaloo. She was joined by the Good Company, a troupe of singers and dancers dressed in lime-green suits (men) and burnt orange dresses (women). The set design and pacing borrowed from Laugh-In without the laughs. On one show, the host's introduction went: "Guess what? From my hometown, Winnipeg, my special guests, the Guess Who. Oh, that's no joke. That's their name." The lame effort to give Juliette a hipper vibe was not a success.

Her holiday album that year, Juliette's Christmas Special , was a seasonal blockbuster for RCA Victor in Canada.

Meanwhile, she continued to barnstorm the country, appearing on an Arctic tour with the Guess Who and in her birthplace with Bob Hope. In 1970, Juliette sang the national anthem at the inaugural NHL game for the Vancouver Canucks at the Pacific Coliseum. (Her performance inspired an opera singer named Richard Loney to try out for the job, which he would hold for four decades.)

She found a niche audience as host of the daytime television talk shows After Noon and Juliette and Friends , while also hosting the occasional 60-minute variety special. Even as television work dried up, she continued to perform for favourite charities.

Her husband died in 1988 of Alzheimer's. She later enjoyed a romance with Raymond Smith, a widower and retired president of forestry giant MacMillan Bloedel, who had once been a member of Mr. Richards's orchestra. Mr. Smith died in 2005.

Juliette died on Oct. 26 at a Vancouver rehabilitation centre, where she was staying after suffering injuries from a fall. No cause of death was announced. She was predeceased by her sister, Suzanne Maya Elsyveta Price, who died in 1994.

The singer was named to the B.C. Entertainment Hall of Fame as a founding inductee in 1994. Her sister, a vocalist who also was known professionally by her first name, is also a member of the hall, whose members are honoured with a Star Walk along the sidewalk on Granville Street in Vancouver. Juliette was also added to Canada's Walk of Fame, in Toronto. She was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1975.

The folksy manner which won her show legions of fans included urging her backup singers with an enthusiastic, "C'mon, fellas." She'd offer a "Hi, honey" to a guest vocalist. Her best known catchphrase came at the end of each episode, when she'd look into the camera to offer a heartfelt signoff: "Goodnight, Mom."

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Juliette Augustina Sysak Cavazzi, CM, nicknamed "Our pet", is a Canadian singer and television host who was featured on CBC Television from the 1950s through the 1970s.

The daughter of Polish-Ukrainian immigrants, she moved with her family to Vancouver in her youth, where she began her singing career in 1940. She was professionally known by simply her first name, Juliette, starting with her appearances with the Dal Richards band at the Hotel Vancouver at age 13.

She was married to her manager, singer Tony Cavazzi, for 40 years until his death. She is retired and lives in Vancouver, although she makes occasional special appearances, such as an event marking the 85th birthday of bandleader Dal Richards in 2004.

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Juliette Augustina Cavazzi , (née Sysak ; 27 August 1926 – 26 October 2017), nicknamed "Our pet", was a Canadian singer and television host who was featured on CBC Television from the 1950s through the 1970s.

The daughter of Polish-Ukrainian immigrants, Juliette Augustina Sysak was born in St. Vital, Manitoba. She moved with her family to Vancouver in her youth, where she began her singing career in 1940. She was professionally known by simply her first name, Juliette, starting with her appearances with the Dal Richards band at the Hotel Vancouver at age 13.

Juliette Cavazzi married her manager, singer Tony Ivo Cavazzi on 7 July 1948. They remained married for 40 years until his death in 1988. She retired and lived in Vancouver, although she made occasional special appearances, such as an event marking the 85th birthday of bandleader Dal Richards in 2004.

She died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 26 October 2017, at the age of 91.

Awards and honours

• 1975: appointed Member of the Order of Canada
• 1999: inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame
• date unknown: inducted into BC Entertainment Hall of Fame,
• In February 1955, she was selected as Queen of the Saranac Lake, New York winter carnival.

Filmography

• 1956–1966: Juliette (CBC Television series)
• 1973–1975: Juliette and Friends (CBC Television series)
• 8 September 2002: Life and Times biography (CBC Television)

Discography

• 1968: Juliette
• 1968: Juliette's Christmas World
• 1969: Juliette's Country World

External links

• Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series ( Juliette archived listing link via archive.org)
• Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series ( Juliette and Friends archived listing link via archive.org)
• CBC News "Your Pet, Juliette"
• Canada's Walk of Fame: Juliette Cavazzi
• CBC Life and Times : Juliette
• Juliette at IMDb
• Juliette discography at Discogs
• Entry at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca
• Dal Richards (official)

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Readers of canine health books and magazines, including this one, can be forgiven for assuming that holistic dog care or natural pet care is a recent breakthrough, something developed during the past two or three decades by a handful of revolutionary veterinarians and researchers.

Not so. Today’s holistic dog care movement began over 70 years ago when Juliette de Bairacli Levy defined “natural rearing.” Now in her 90s and living in Switzerland, Levy holds a place of honor in the history of natural pet care.

Born to a wealthy Jewish family (her father was Turkish, her mother Egyptian) and raised in England with chauffeurs, maids, cooks, and gardeners, Levy knew in childhood that she wanted to be a veterinarian. She attended two universities and was in her final year of veterinary school when she decided that conventional medicine had none of the answers she sought, and she embarked on a lifetime of travel and study with nomadic people, first in England, then around the world.

“I realized that if I wanted to learn the traditional ways of healing and caring for animals, I had to be where people still lived close to the land and close to their flocks,” she says. “From Berbers, Bedouins, nomads, peasants, and gypsies in England, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Mexico, and Austria, I learned herbal knowledge and the simple laws of health and happiness. I never tired of traveling with my Afghan Hounds, always living with and learning from those around me.”

An inexhaustible writer, Levy shared what she learned in letters, travel books, novels, poems, and books about herbs and animals. In the 1930s, she published three canine herbals. The Cure of Canine Distemper described protocols she developed for her highly successful distemper clinic in London. Puppy Rearing by Natural Methods and Medicinal Herbs: Their Use in Canine Ailments were reprinted for a wider audience in London in 1947. All three were soon translated into German and other languages.

Just over 50 years ago, in 1955, she combined these works in The Complete Herbal Book for the Dog. Now in its sixth edition and called The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat, this is the book that brought Levy’s natural rearing philosophy to breeders, trainers, and dog owners throughout the world.

Five Rules of Natural Rearing

Levy’s basic rules of natural rearing for dogs require:

1) a correct natural diet of raw foods;

2) abundant sunlight and fresh air;, 3) at least two hours of exercise daily, including plenty of running exercise outside any kennel enclosures;, 4) hygienic kenneling, with the use of earth, grass, or gravel runs, never concrete; and, 5) herbs, fasting, and other natural methods in place of vaccinations and conventional symptom-suppressing drugs..

Levy’s first rule has gained acceptance over the years. Many holistic veterinarians recommend feeding a home-prepared diet of raw foods , including meat and bones. Some use the diet of wild wolves as a model. Levy and her followers feed a variety of foods, including raw meat, dairy, eggs, minced herbs, and small quantities of fruit, vegetables, powdered seaweed, and grains such as oats soaked overnight in raw goat milk or yogurt.

“I introduced seaweed to the veterinary world when a student in the early ’30s,” she says. “It was scorned then, but now it is very popular worldwide.” She credits kelp and other sea vegetables with giving dark pigment to eyes, noses, and nails, stimulating hair growth, and developing strong bones.

In addition to providing ample quantities of pure water at all times, Levy recommends one meatless day and one fasting day (no food, just water) per week for adult dogs. Where raw bones are concerned, Levy recommends feeding them after the day’s main meal, on a full stomach, so that the bone is cushioned by food, and with a small amount of soaked bran, shredded coconut, or other fiber to help sweep bone fragments from the digestive tract.

All of Levy’s dietary recommendations are accompanied by traditional herbal formulas for everything from daily health maintenance to birthing aids and weaning foods, disinfecting herbs that help protect dogs from harmful viruses, bacteria, and parasites, and herbal first-aid for dozens of conditions and illnesses.

Researchers who study the connection between natural light and the endocrine system agree with Levy’s recommendation that dogs spend as much time as possible outdoors. They blame malillumination, the lack of unfiltered natural light, for a host of chronic illnesses. Glass windows prevent the transmission of full-spectrum natural light, but open windows and doorways provide it.

Daily outdoor exercise , including running and play, does more than burn calories; it stimulates lymph circulation, strengthens bones, improves immunity, and keeps dogs happy as well as healthy.

Levy’s advice about kenneling dogs in close contact with earth or grass rather than concrete is interesting in light of research cited by cell biologist James Oschman, PhD, in his book “ Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis of Bioenergy Therapies .” Dr. Oschman links modern health problems to our insulation from the natural supply of free electrons that reside on the surface of the earth. Barefoot contact with the earth, he says, supplies free electrons in abundance.

As San Diego health researcher Dale Teplitz explains, “Animals know that, and when given a chance they will choose to be in contact with the earth. This barefoot contact can improve sleep, reduce inflammation that causes pain, balance hormones, enhance circulatory and neurological function, and much more.”

As one would expect, Levy has no use for pesticides, weed killers, or other lawn chemicals, and she recommends feeding dogs organically raised and pasture-fed ingredients.

Levy considers vaccinations unnecessary and inappropriate, both because natural methods treat illnesses successfully and because vaccines disrupt the body’s immune system.

“You cannot discount the hundreds of canine distemper cures that Juliette and her students achieved,” says Marina Zacharias, who has studied natural rearing for over 20 years. “And I have witnessed her parvovirus treatments first-hand with great success. When you know that these ailments can be successfully treated with natural methods, it removes the fear that has been instilled in us. I know that in my case she definitely empowered me to take an active and preventive role in my animals’ health care. Our society does not teach you that.

“Juliette encourages you to think for yourself and not blindly follow established methods just because you are told to. Her attitude is rare, especially today. She has witnessed almost an entire century, and through all the technological breakthroughs of modern science, she still advocates natural rearing methods, as they continue to prove themselves effective.”

Fasting for Healing

To most of us, fasting – depriving a dog of food – seems unnatural. Surely the right thing to do is to encourage a dog to eat at every mealtime. But fasting is Levy’s choice of treatment for all animals, including humans, who are ill.

Well-known author and trainer Wendy Volhard learned about fasting and natural rearing 39 years ago when these methods saved her dog’s life and started her on a fascinating new career.

In 1967, Volhard traveled from New York to Germany, where she met 17- and 18-year-old Landseer Newfoundlands. It’s also where she acquired Heidi, an exceptionally healthy young female, as the foundation of her breeding kennel.

“I was in my early 20s then,” says Volhard, “and I wanted to do everything in the most scientific manner. I talked and worked with veterinarians at every opportunity, so I knew the importance of vaccinating every dog for everything and, of course, feeding the finest quality commercial dog food. That was the only way to go.”

But instead of thriving, Heidi declined, and at age five, she was given a month to live. “She had total deterioration,” says Volhard. “Her kidneys, liver, and heart were failing, and she had skeletal problems. Her whole body was falling apart.”

In desperation, Volhard returned to Germany and asked for help. She learned that Heidi’s long-lived, healthy relatives were fed raw, natural foods, nothing out of a box or can, and none were vaccinated. The English breeders she visited on her way home used the same methods, and they gave her as a parting gift Levy’s Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog.

Volhard read the book on her return flight to New York and laughed heartily at Levy’s advice to fast sick animals and build them up with herbs and natural foods. But at home with her dying dog, she thought, “What else can I do?” The finest veterinary medicine wasn’t helping.

Over the strong objections of her husband, who thought Heidi should enjoy a steak every day for whatever time she had left, Volhard fasted the dog for three weeks, feeding her only fluids, honey, and herbs. “I followed Juliette’s guidelines absolutely,” she says. “I had nowhere else to go. And every day that my dog didn’t eat, she got better. At the end of three weeks, we started her on a natural diet, and she regained her strength, recovered completely, got her Utility title, and lived an active, happy life until she died seven years later at age 12.”

At the time, Volhard was a Wall Street Journal reporter, with one foot in the scientific “prove it” community. She decided to compare Levy’s natural rearing diet, with its a-little-of-this-and-a-little-of-that approach, to the National Science Foundation’s nutritional guidelines for dog food, the only scientifically tested pet food standard at the time.

“It took me 12 years and many interviews with experts,” she says. “Then my veterinarian helped with final adjustments, which we made as the result of hundreds of blood tests.”

In 1984 Volhard published her diet, and the book that resulted, Holistic Guide for a Healthy Dog, is now in its second edition.

Several years later, she met Levy at a seminar. “I thought, Oh my, if I were in her shoes and met a woman who had taken my work and fiddled with it and then published it, how would I feel? With trepidation, I finally met her, and she said, ‘I’ve been waiting to meet you for years. You’ve done a fabulous job. Thank you for taking my work and carrying on.’ She was incredibly gracious.”

Volhard adjusted the ratio of calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus in Levy’s diet, but she calls the natural rearing philosophy as important and effective today as it was when Levy first proposed it. “Juliette did the very best she could with the knowledge available at the time,” says Volhard. “She did a magnificent job. She is truly the grandmother of the entire holistic dog care  and animal care movement. She’s like Adele Davis in the human health food movement. She started it up.”

Herbal Wisdom

Traditional herbal medicine had all but disappeared in the United States when, in the 1960s, a new generation began turning away from conventional therapies and looking for alternatives. Rosemary Gladstar, now one of America’s leading herbalists, was part of that movement.

“Juliette has done amazing things for dogs, cats, and farm animals, but she has also done wonderful things for people,” says Gladstar. “Her early books had an extraordinary influence on herbalists everywhere. She single-handedly rescued a body of knowledge that would otherwise have been lost or ignored, and she put it directly into the hands of her readers.”

As valuable as Levy’s recipes and instructions were to her and other herbalists, Gladstar recalls that it was Levy’s ability to inspire her readers that changed their lives. “There is no doubt about it,” she says. “She sparked and awakened something in me, just as she did in hundreds of others, far more than any other herbalist at the time. I think it was because she was so connected to the earth and to plants, and she was able to transmit and pass on that feeling of connection. Juliette made herbal medicine fully accessible to everyone.”

Gladstar has followed Levy’s nutritional recommendations for all of her dogs, including Deva, a Bernese Mountain Dog.

“Deva came to me with all kinds of problems,” she says. “She had major personality disorders, which I think stemmed in part from her body being so uncomfortable from mange and hot spots. Her coat was in terrible shape, with huge bald areas and weeping eczema. She looked really awful, and she was so unhappy. Deva is now over nine years old, which for a Berner is elderly, and for years her health problems have been about 99 percent gone. She has a wonderful personality and a wonderful life, thanks to natural rearing.”

Gladstar began a correspondence with Levy in the 1970s after reading A Gypsy in New York and Traveler’s Joy. “Though these were not really herb books,” she says, “I loved them and wrote to the author in care of her publisher. To my surprise, she wrote back, and we became pen pals.”

In the 1980s, Gladstar organized an herbal tour that visited Levy in Greece, where she lived on a small island. “I decided then and there that I wanted to bring her to the United States so that people who used medicinal plants and raised their animals with the help of her books would have a chance to meet her.”

Gladstar listed Levy as the keynote speaker at the first International Herb Symposium, which was held in 1988 in Framingham, Massachusetts. “The response was overwhelming,” she says. “We had a huge audience. It was especially exciting for Juliette because this was the first time in her elder years that she was able to see and meet people whose lives had been affected by her books. She started spending more time in the U.S. and in fact lived here for long stretches of time, and her books began to sell again.”

One of Levy’s West Coast disciples was Marina Zacharias, who imported her NR (Natural Rearing) brand of herbal supplements from England and sold her books. By the late 1980s, Levy’s London publisher, Faber & Faber, had run out of The Complete Herbal Handbook for the Dog and Cat but planned not to reprint the book until a sufficient number of orders arrived. The delay could be lengthy, so Zacharias ordered 2,000 copies and kept the book in print.

Like Gladstar, Zacharias organized a large seminar featuring Juliette de Bairacli Levy, this one in Seattle. “People flew in from all over the country,” she says. “They came not only to hear her speak but to actually meet her in person and hear her stories. I think every one of us that day walked away knowing that we had touched history and that we had been very fortunate to meet such a master herbalist and animal advocate.”

Zacharias first read Levy’s book in the mid-1980s when she was preparing to bring home her first show-quality Basset Hound puppy. At the time, she had two mixed-breed toy dogs who seemed to have every possible canine disorder.

“When I read Juliette’s book,” she says, “it was as though someone hit me over the head with a brick. With great certainty I knew this was what I needed to do for my dogs. Her logic regarding natural rearing combined with her clinical experience was impressive. I immediately switched my dogs from Purina chow to raw food and never looked back.”

Zacharias values Levy’s advice because it has stood the test of time. “She will tell you that these methods are not ‘her’ diet and herbal inventions but rather foods and medicinal plants as they have been used for generations and centuries,” she says. “Juliette is an herbal historian.”

Juliette’s Legacy of Holistic Dog Care

When we asked Levy what she would most like to be remembered for, she replied, “My Turkuman Afghan Hounds became famous for their vitality and speed, and I still prize the Time magazine photograph of one of my hounds after he won Best in Show at Westminster, with the simple caption ‘Best hound in all of America.’ I would like to go to my grave or fly to heaven breeding Afghans.

“Another thing I would like to be remembered for is curing canine distemper, which became my specialty. Indeed, the veterinarians of the King of England sent me their important cases to cure during World War II at my distemper clinic in London.

“I would also like to be remembered for curing 3,000 condemned sheep by herbal methods in England in 1947, clearing their diarrhea and other symptoms with green plants and molasses while vast numbers of sheep in neighboring fields received conventional care and died. Saving the sheep remains one of my proudest moments.”

To her fans and friends in the United States and around the world, and especially to their dogs, she sends appreciation and best wishes.

Levy, who lives with her daughter in Switzerland, is still a traveler. As this article went to press Levy was in Germany visiting her remaining Afghan Hound, Malika (Shirini Shades of Velvet), who lives on a friend’s farm. She welcomes e-mail messages, which can be sent to her at [email protected] , but regrets that she will not be able to send individual replies.

-A long-time contributor to WDJ and author of The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care, Natural Remedies for Dogs & Cats, and other books, CJ Puotinen lives in New York with her husband, a Lab, and a tabby cat.

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Why did the kittens visit Carl’s Auto Repair Shop? Because their car-purr-retors were broken!  😹

OK…maybe not quite, but when these five tiny felines showed up at Carl’s Auto Repair in August 2019, there was no doubt that they were in desperate need of help. Juliette, the trailblazer, had been found with her front leg pinned under a wooden pallet, and an employee called Pet Paw See for help. After rescuing Juliette, Pet Paw See suspected there may be more kittens and sure enough, they hit the kitten jackpot and trapped FOUR more of Juliette’s siblings (Jade, Jessa, Jensen, and Josephine)! These beauties were only around five weeks old when found, and had been born feral—with little to no human contact. Although very skittish at first, their doting foster momma has showered them with love and affection and showed them that these bald bipeds with fur only on their heads (AKA: humans!) aren’t so bad after all! Their foster mom reports that their little engines never stop purring and that their personalities have started to blossom and will surely continue to grow with the right families. These gorgeous girls will thrive in quiet, adult-only homes with pet parents who understand they may need a little extra love and reassurance that they are OK and safe. One of the kittens, Jade, has already been adopted and has acclimated flawlessly to her new home life!

Juliette—the Hero

My sisters call me the problem child, but what do they know! If it weren’t for me and my adventurous spirit, we may never have been rescued! My leg has fully recovered from my unfortunate run-in with that wood pallet and I motor around the house like nothing has ever happened to me. Ain’t nothin’ gonna hold me down! Oh, I’m also a fashionista! Have you seen me styling in my cute little white sweater that kept me from bothering my leg wound when I was still recovering? Runway modeling career, here I come!

 😍♥️ These girls were born in late July 2019 and have been with Pet Paw-See since they were 5 weeks old! Let’s find these sisters a home of their own. ♥️

Juliette’s Original Bio: Meet Juliette … the newest addition to Pet Paw-See Rescue. In late August, (8.26.19) a very nice man rescued her at Carl’s Auto Care. Her front right leg was pinned between a wooden pallet and plastic milk crate. Her bottom was covered in her own urine and feces, meaning she had probably been stuck all weekend. Pet Paw-See received a call yesterday evening and she was taken to the emergency vet. They did x-rays and nothing looks broken or fractured. However, she does have nerve damage and most likely cannot feel anything in her leg since she just drags it. There is a possibility of the nerves coming back, but it’s not likely, and we may be looking at amputation in the future. She is about 5-6 weeks old and a whopping one pound. She is currently in a loving foster home who will work at getting her healthy and strong.

UPDATE 9.2.19 Yesterday morning, Juliette’s foster mom noticed something strange on Juliette’s hurt elbow. The foster mom looked closer and could see some sort of pus coming out. She was taken to the vet immediately and they shaved the area to take a closer look. They saw that her elbow had split open overnight due to the pressure of swelling from having it stuck in the wooden pallet a few days before. They ended up sedating her and stitching it back up. She now gets to wear a cute little kitten sweater while she heals to make sure she doesn’t mess with her switches. She’s in good spirits this morning and seems to be feeling better! The vet said she’s now able to feel in her leg, which is very good because there’s a better chance the nerves will recover and hopefully amputation will not be needed. She is still not using her paw the way she should, but time will tell!

UPDATE 9.16.19 Juliette is using her leg more and more! Such good news!

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Pet Details

• Date: August 31, 2019
• Categories: ADOPTED

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Juliette Perret Soprano

Born in Grenoble, Juliette Perret began studying piano and viola da gamba in her hometown before taking up singing in 2003. In 2004, she studied at the Haute École de Musique de Genève, before entering the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon, where she graduated in June 2009. In 2008, she recorded her first solo CD with Les Demoiselles de Saint Cyr (Emmanuel Mandrin) in a program based on François Couperin's Leçons des Ténèbres.

Critically acclaimed, she was awarded a Diapason d'Or. She performs as soloist and chorister with Les Arts Florissants (William Christie), Correspondances (Sébastien Daucé), Pygmalion (Raphaël Pichon), Akademia (Françoise Lasserre), la Maîtrise de Radio France (Sofi Jeannin), les Folies Françoises (Patrick Cohen-Akenine), la Cappella Mediterannea (Leonardo Garcia Alarcon), le Parlement de Musique (Martin Gester), La Fenice (Jean Tubéry) and Marguerite Louise (Gaétan Jarry). Since 2012, she has sung with Les Arts Florissants as soloist or in the chorus with William Christie.

Since 2018, she has sung in several recordings, including Lully's La Grotte de Versailles (conducted by Gaétan Jarry), the reconstruction of a Venetian mass with Les Arts Florissants (conducted by Paul Agnew), as well as French motets with Les Arts Florissants and several recordings with Ensemble Akademia. She sings in the recording of "Ancor che col partire" for the 30th anniversary of the Ricercar label. In recent years, Juliette Perret has taken part in the creation of Molière's play Georges Dandin ou le mari confondu, directed by Michel Fau at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

She was also a nymph in an opera by Mondonville at the Opéra Comique and the Opéra Royal de Versailles under the direction of William Christie, and appeared in a new creation of Charpentier's David&Jonathas at the Opéra Royal de Versailles.

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