Pamela Gordon Bio
Pamela Gordon was a Canadian glamour and nude model. Born Pamela Anne Gordon on February 10, 1943, in Vancouver, Canada, she has also been credited as Pam Gordon. Playboy named her its March 1962 Playmate at 19. Her appearance came during the 1960s, as Playboy grew into a major force in American magazine publishing.
Gordon had natural breasts, blue eyes and blond hair. Her measurements are 39-23-35.
Gordon holds the distinction of being Playboy’s first Canadian Playmate, a small but unmistakable piece of the magazine’s growing international footprint. Her centerfold was a collaborative portrait, shot by Mario Casilli and Ken Honey, the kind of studio work that favored composed lighting and posed calm over flashier tricks—an image designed to read well on the page as much as it photographed well.
Soon after the feature, she brought that same composed presence onto the floor of the Chicago Playboy Club, working as a Bunny and translating magazine glamour into the club’s nightly performance of elegance. That chapter made her a familiar face to a different audience and kept her visible in the circuits where modeling and hospitality overlapped.
Public recognition extended beyond the club circuit: Liberty magazine singled her out among the top Canadians of 1962, a piece of national notice that linked a glossy-page appearance with mainstream attention north of the border. Taken together, these moments—an inaugural national Playmate credit, a club role in one of Playboy’s flagship rooms, and a contemporary nod from a national publication—make Pamela Gordon a tidy emblem of transnational popular culture during that moment, a Canadian presence folded into an American-born gloss.
