Photo: TagaSanPedroAko · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Bonnie Doon is on the famous people list yet
A short trip away, Downtown (3 km) counts 2 famous people, James McKay among them. Across Alberta, 154 towns list someone born there. No town in Alberta lists more than Edmonton, with 1,033. Second in Alberta is Calgary (1,028 names), behind only Edmonton.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Bonnie Doon’s neighbourhood outline, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Nobody born in Bonnie Doon with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Bonnie Doon
Questions about famous people from Bonnie Doon
Who counts as from Bonnie Doon?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Bonnie Doon’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- James McKay: Archives of Manitoba, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).