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Michael Wall
born 1985Canadian ice hockey player
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Famous people · Telkwa, British Columbia
Telkwa has just one famous person to its name: Michael Wall
Michael Wall, the Canadian ice hockey player, was born in 1985. Their name appears in articles in 5 languages. The nearest list is in Smithers, 13 km away: 20 names, starting with Gina Holden. Across British Columbia, the lists cover 144 towns.
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1
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Best known
Michael Wall
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1985
Michael Wall
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Telkwa
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Questions about famous people from Telkwa
Who is the most famous person from Telkwa?
By our measure the best known is Michael Wall (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Telkwa?
Born in Telkwa and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1.
What is Telkwa known for?
athletes lead the list, with 1 of 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Telkwa?
The list takes people born within Telkwa’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known 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 (1)
- Gina Holden: Gina_Holden_Elizabeth_Rowin_Saw_3D_premiere.jpg : Cathy Greutert derivative work: MikeAllen 03:25, 30 October 2010 (UTC), 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).