André Roy
Canadian actor, playwright and comedian
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
René Lévesque heads the list in Campbellton, 13 km away, which has 36 names. 120 of the towns in New Brunswick list at least one person. Articles about André Roy exist in 2 languages. The longest list of any town in New Brunswick belongs to Saint John, with 252.
Canadian actor, playwright and comedian
Nearby towns with at least one name on record: 7.
By our measure the best known is André Roy (Canadian actor, playwright and comedian); the spotlight above gives the details.
For Dalhousie the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
Mostly performers: 1 of the 1 people listed. 100% here, set against 10% for Canadian towns.
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Dalhousie’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. Dalhousie is also the name of another municipality in New Brunswick: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Dalhousie”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
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).
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).