Photo: James Abbott from New Westminster, B.C., Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Cowichan Bay, Duncan lists 32 famous people
No famous person’s birth in Cowichan Bay is on record yet. In British Columbia, 144 towns have someone on the list. The longest list of any town in British Columbia belongs to Vancouver, with 1,534. Only Vancouver outnumbers Victoria in British Columbia, whose list holds 386 names.
Who’s listed here
This page lists people whose Wikidata birthplace lies inside Cowichan Bay’s municipal boundary, once their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. No one with an English or French Wikipedia article is recorded on Wikidata as born in Cowichan Bay yet.
Famous people born near Cowichan Bay
Duncan · 8 kmMac DeMarco & 31 moreDBNorth Cowichan · 10 kmDoug Bodger & 5 more
Sidney · 18 kmPatrick deWitt & 5 more
Cobble Hill · 6 kmFrances Oldham Kelsey & 1 more
Saltspring Island · 16 kmKyler Jukes & 1 moreWKCowichan · 6 kmWilliam Russell KellyJFShawnigan · 10 kmJoseph Fall
Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley · 11 kmLoisette M. MarshQuestions about famous people from Cowichan Bay
Who counts as from Cowichan Bay?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Cowichan Bay’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (5)
- Mac DeMarco: Paul Carless from St Albans, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick deWitt: librairie mollat, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frances Oldham Kelsey: The photographer is unknown., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Kyler Jukes: Natandky, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Loisette M. Marsh: Unknown author, 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).