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Photo: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Shawnigan, British Columbia
Shawnigan, birthplace of the Canadian flying ace Joseph Fall
The Canadian flying ace Joseph Fall was born in 1895. Their birth falls between Confederation and 1913. 4 languages have an article about them. Mac DeMarco tops the 32 names on record in Duncan, 15 km away.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joseph Fall
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1895
Joseph Fall
Most common field
Military
1 person
The best known
Born in Shawnigan
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Shawnigan, with how many people each has.
Duncan · 15 kmMac DeMarco & 31 more
Sidney · 18 kmPatrick deWitt & 5 moreDBNorth Cowichan · 18 kmDoug Bodger & 5 moreIBCentral Saanich · 18 kmIain Brambell & 4 more
Cobble Hill · 7 kmFrances Oldham Kelsey & 1 more
Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley · 7 kmLoisette M. MarshWKCowichan · 13 kmWilliam Russell KellyQuestions about famous people from Shawnigan
Who is the most famous person from Shawnigan?
Joseph Fall (Canadian flying ace) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Shawnigan?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Shawnigan according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata places 2 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Shawnigan known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 1 of the 1. Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 2%.
Who counts as from Shawnigan?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Shawnigan’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article. Moving here later is not enough, and adult performers and people known chiefly for crimes are not listed.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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)
- 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
- 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).