Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNo famous person born in Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley is listed yet
Duncan, 2 km off, can claim 32 famous people, the best known Mac DeMarco. The longest list in British Columbia is Vancouver’s, with 1,534 names. Only Vancouver outnumbers Victoria in British Columbia, whose list holds 386 names. The British Columbia lists hold names for 144 towns.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley’s municipal boundary, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley
Questions about famous people from Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley
Who counts as from Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list.
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 (4)
- Mac DeMarco: Paul Carless from St Albans, UK, CC BY 2.0, 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).