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Marcel André J. Gervais
1931–2023Canadian Catholic prelate
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Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Famous people · Cartier, Manitoba
Marcel André J. Gervais, born in 1931, is Cartier’s famous person on record
Marcel André J. Gervais, the Canadian Catholic prelate, was born in 1931. Their birth falls between 1914 and 1945. Readers can find them written up in 5 languages. Within 17 km, St. François Xavier lists Arthur Maurice Pearson.
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Marcel André J. Gervais
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
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1931
Marcel André J. Gervais
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Towns around it with someone on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Cartier
Who is the most famous person from Cartier?
Marcel André J. Gervais (Canadian Catholic prelate) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Cartier?
Born in Cartier and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1.
What is Cartier known for?
The largest group is clergy and people of faith, 1 in all out of 1. Across Canadian towns the figure is 1%; here, 100%.
Who counts as from Cartier?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Cartier’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?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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.
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