Background
Paivio was born near Portuguese Arthur, Ontario, and raised in nearby Sudbury by his Finnish parents.
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Päiviö"s brother Allan Paivio is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Western Ontario. He is best known for his dual-coding theory. Paivio left Canada at the age of 19 to fight in the He was captured during the war, saved from execution by an Italian officer, and placed in a prisoner-of-war camp.
Paivio was the last surviving Canadian veteran of the, and in 2012 he was honored by the Spanish government by being granted honorary citizenship.
During, Paivio trained soldiers in map-reading and surveying. Paivio was a trained architect and taught at Ryerson University.
Jules Paivio died on 4 September 2013, at the age of 97.
Politics
His father Aku Päiviö was a Finnish Canadian journalist, poet and socialist.
Membership
A veteran of the, he was the last surviving member of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion.
