Photo: Kenny Louie from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.0Famous people from Deer Lake
No entry yet names Deer Lake as a birthplace. The neighbour Holdom, 2 km away, has John Olver on record. The British Columbia lists hold names for 144 towns. Vancouver has the most of any town in British Columbia: 1,534.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Deer Lake’s neighbourhood outline and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Deer Lake who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Deer Lake
Only Holdom nearby has a name on record.
Questions about famous people from Deer Lake
Who counts as from Deer Lake?
Born inside Deer Lake’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page at the next refresh.
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.
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