W. Yvon Dumont
born 1951Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
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Photo: Vince pahkala · CC BY-SA 3.0Most widely known is W. Yvon Dumont, the lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, with articles in 5 languages. Close behind are Harvey Clifford and Jack Connolly. Births span 1900 to 1951, from Jack Connolly to W. Yvon Dumont. In Manitoba, 115 towns have someone on the list.
Two of the three are athletes.
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
Canadian ice hockey player
Share of St. Laurent’s famous people in each field.
For comparison, the usual town: how the people listed across Canadian towns split by field. Tap a field to list its people.
By our measure the best known is W. Yvon Dumont (lieutenant Governor of Manitoba); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Harvey Clifford and Jack Connolly.
Wikidata places 4 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
67% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 38%.
Jack Connolly, from 1900; the most recent birth on the list is from 1951.
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside St. Laurent’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
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.
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