Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainNo one born in Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary has made the famous people list yet
A short trip away, Trail (12 km) counts 67 famous people, Kathleen Heddle among them. 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. Victoria comes next in British Columbia, behind Vancouver, with 386 names.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary’s municipal boundary and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary
Questions about famous people from Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary
Who counts as from Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary?
Born inside Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
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.
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).