Famous people from East Saanich 2
Nelly Furtado tops the 386 names on record in Victoria, 18 km away. No famous person has yet been confirmed as born in East Saanich 2. In all of British Columbia, the famous people on record come from 144 towns. The longest list of any town in British Columbia belongs to Vancouver, with 1,534.
Who’s listed here
The page takes births Wikidata records inside East Saanich 2’s reserve lands, each checked against the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Nobody born in East Saanich 2 with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near East Saanich 2
The best known from each town within 20 km of East Saanich 2, with how many people each has.
Sidney · 7 kmPatrick deWitt & 5 moreIBCentral Saanich · 4 kmIain Brambell & 4 moreAAEsquimalt · 17 kmAnthony Armstrong & 2 more
Cobble Hill · 18 kmFrances Oldham Kelsey & 1 moreCESaanich · 13 kmCharles W. Elliott
Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley · 14 kmLoisette M. Marsh
Langford · 18 kmMoka OnlyQuestions about famous people from East Saanich 2
Who counts as from East Saanich 2?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside East Saanich 2’s reserve lands (the reserve’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?
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (4)
- Patrick deWitt: librairie mollat, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Frances Oldham Kelsey: The photographer is unknown., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Loisette M. Marsh: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Moka Only: Simon Law, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).