#1Writing & Arts
Joshua Slocum
1844–1909American navigator and maritime writer
26 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Annapolis County, Subdivision C, Nova Scotia
Annapolis County, Subdivision C counts 4 famous people, first among them Joshua Slocum
Articles in 26 languages make the American navigator and maritime writer Joshua Slocum the best known. Close behind are Frank Andrews and Beniah Longley Whitman. The earliest on the list is Joshua Slocum, born in 1844, and the youngest Guilford Bevil Reed, born in 1887. The list comes to 7 for every 10,000 residents, below the 10.9 of the typical town in Nova Scotia.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Joshua Slocum
26 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1844
Joshua Slocum
Youngest
1887
Guilford Bevil Reed
Most common field
Science & Medicine
2 people
The best known
Born in Annapolis County, Subdivision C
#1FA#2
Politics & Law
Frank Andrews
1854–1924Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Science & Medicine
Beniah Longley Whitman
1862–1911Canadian-American academic
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s famous people were born
The 1840s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
Science & MedicineWriting & ArtsPolitics & Law
One dot per person, piled up by decade of birth.
Known for
What Annapolis County, Subdivision C is known for
Science & Medicine leads the fields, with 2 people.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Annapolis County, Subdivision C
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Kingston has the most on record: 12.
Questions about famous people from Annapolis County, Subdivision C
Who is the most famous person from Annapolis County, Subdivision C?
By our measure the best known is Joshua Slocum (American navigator and maritime writer); the spotlight above gives the details. Next come Frank Andrews and Beniah Longley Whitman.
What is Annapolis County, Subdivision C known for?
50% here, set against 5% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Annapolis County, Subdivision C?
Joshua Slocum (1844). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1887.
Who counts as from Annapolis County, Subdivision C?
Born inside Annapolis County, Subdivision C’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) on Wikidata’s record, with an English or French Wikipedia article to back it up: that is the test, hospitals and districts within the outline included. Someone who just lived here does not pass it, and adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are excluded.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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)
- Joshua Slocum: Hollinger & Co., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Beniah Longley Whitman: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ernest Howard Armstrong: Harry J. Moss, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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).