EM#1
Writing & Arts
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
1864–1922Canadian poet, children's writer, suffragist
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0Famous people · Sackville, New Brunswick
2 famous people were born in Sackville
Best known of all is Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, written about in 5 languages. The only other name is the Canadian boxing coach Bob Edgett. The list runs from Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald, born in 1864, to Bob Edgett, born in 1930. A short trip away, Amherst (18 km) counts 47 famous people, Willard Boyle among them.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1864
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
Youngest
1930
Bob Edgett
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Sackville
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Known for
What Sackville is known for
Share of Sackville’s famous people in each field.
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Questions about famous people from Sackville
Who is the most famous person from Sackville?
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (Canadian poet, children's writer, suffragist) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Bob Edgett.
How many famous people were born in Sackville?
Wikidata has 3 born here; the ones not shown have no article that agrees, or none at all.
What is Sackville known for?
That is 50% of the town’s list, against 12% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sackville?
Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1930.
Who counts as from Sackville?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Sackville’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. Sackville is also the name of another municipality in New Brunswick: for everyone listed here, Wikipedia gives only “Sackville”, so the other place can’t be ruled out.
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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (3)
- Willard Boyle: Prolineserver, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roméo LeBlanc: United Press International, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Red Stuart: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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