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Politics & Law
Christian Halldorson
1891–1956Canadian politician
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Photo: Greg N · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Coldwell, Manitoba
Coldwell, birthplace of the Canadian politician Christian Halldorson
Christian Halldorson, the Canadian politician, was born in 1891. That places their birth between Confederation and 1913. One language has an article about them so far. 115 towns across Manitoba can name a famous person born there.
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Christian Halldorson
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
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1891
Christian Halldorson
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Politics & Law
1 person
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Born in Coldwell
Questions about famous people from Coldwell
Who is the most famous person from Coldwell?
By our measure the best known is Christian Halldorson (Canadian politician); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Coldwell?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Coldwell according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata counts 2 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Coldwell known for?
Mostly leaders: 1 of the 1 people listed. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Coldwell?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Coldwell’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?
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.
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