ES#1
Politics & Law
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
born 1969Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Cumberland County, Subdivision C, Nova Scotia
Cumberland County, Subdivision C’s famous people span 100 years: 4 births from 1869 to 1969
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, the Canadian politician, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. The Canadian politician Gordon Purdy ranks second, ahead of Hance James Logan. The list’s best known name, Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin, dates from 1969. For its size the list is short: 6.6 for every 10,000 residents, against 10.9 in the typical Nova Scotia town.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1869
Hance James Logan
Youngest
1969
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
Most common field
Politics & Law
4 people
The best known
Born in Cumberland County, Subdivision C
GP#2
Politics & Law
Gordon Purdy
1888–1974Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Hance James Logan
1869–1944Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Cumberland County, Subdivision C’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1960s, with 1 people born in that decade.
Politics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Cumberland County, Subdivision C
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Amherst leads the towns around it, with 47 names.
Questions about famous people from Cumberland County, Subdivision C
Who is the most famous person from Cumberland County, Subdivision C?
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin (Canadian politician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Gordon Purdy and Hance James Logan.
How many famous people were born in Cumberland County, Subdivision C?
Wikidata places 7 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Cumberland County, Subdivision C known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 100%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Cumberland County, Subdivision C?
The earliest is Hance James Logan, born in 1869, and the latest birth listed is 1969.
Who counts as from Cumberland County, Subdivision C?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Cumberland County, Subdivision C’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes.
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 (2)
- Hance James Logan: Unknown author , publisher: Montreal Perrault Print. Co, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Willard Boyle: Prolineserver, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).