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Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Hatchet Lake, Halifax
A single famous person was born in Hatchet Lake: Derek Gaudet
The Canadian soccer player Derek Gaudet was born in 1989. 6 languages have an article about them. The nearest list is in North End, 17 km away: 71 names, starting with Elliot Page. In Nova Scotia, 82 towns have someone on the list.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Derek Gaudet
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1989
Derek Gaudet
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Hatchet Lake
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Hatchet Lake
Who is the most famous person from Hatchet Lake?
The top name is Derek Gaudet (Canadian soccer player), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Hatchet Lake?
For Hatchet Lake the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Hatchet Lake known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who counts as from Hatchet Lake?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Hatchet Lake’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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)
- Elliot Page: PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Dixon: unattributed, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Troy Ryan: John Mac, CC BY-SA 2.0, 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).