#1Famous people · North End, Halifax
71 famous people were born in North End, more of them soldiers and sailors than in most towns
Articles in 83 languages make the Canadian actor Elliot Page the best known. The earliest on the list is Provo Wallis, born in 1791, and the youngest Nick Eh 30, born in 1995. The largest group, 17, was born between Confederation and 1913. North End ranks 3rd of the 82 towns in Nova Scotia with anyone listed.
Born here
71
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Elliot Page
83 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1791
Provo Wallis
Youngest
1995
Nick Eh 30
Most common field
Politics & Law
19 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What North End is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as soldiers and sailors, at 12 times.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
The best known
Born in North End
#1
#2Film, TV & Stage
Leslie Hope
born 1965Canadian actress
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Through the years
When North End’s famous people were born
The 1940s saw the most births of any decade: 9.
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Dots are people, stacked in the decade of their birth.
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Everyone else born in North End
68 more, 19 of them leaders.
Laura Borden
1861–1940Former president of the Local Council of Women of Halifax
Politics & LawWikipedia ↗
Carol A Mullen
born 1961American academic researcher and scholar of alternative mentoring
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Howard Epstein
born 1949Canadian politician, lawyer and part-time law professor
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Questions about famous people from North End
Who is the most famous person from North End?
Elliot Page (Canadian actor) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Leslie Hope and Ty Olsson.
How many famous people were born in North End?
Wikidata places 111 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is North End known for?
Across Canadian towns the figure is 22%; here, 27%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from North End?
Provo Wallis, born in 1791. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
Who counts as from North End?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside North End’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
Why is someone missing?
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).
Photo credits (37)
- Elliot Page: PhilipRomano, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Leslie Hope: Hilary, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ty Olsson: Lisa West Photography, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward Belcher: Stephen Pearce, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Reardon: sean.koo, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tanya Huff: Michael Pereckas, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Art Hindle: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Charles Hill Mailes: Motion Picture Story Magazine, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rachel Reid: HickoryOughtShirt?4, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Austin Willis: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen McNeil: US Embassy Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Henry Weiss: Stellar Publishing / unidentified staff artist, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Laura Borden: William James Topley (1845–1930), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Provo Wallis: Robert Field, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chuck Campbell: Fififolle at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Wickwire Foster: IFoster, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Pulsifer: Laurel L. Ruswwurm, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Annand: William Notman, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Harry Piers: Hantsheroes, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edith Standen: Elizabeth Simpson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- George C. Howard: Photograph well over 150 years old and believed to be in the Public Domain, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Gordon Sidney Harrington: Library and Archives Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John McNeil: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Meagher: Moshe Pridan, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Bent: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Philip Primrose: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Marsh: Martin Cathrae, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Livingston: Ailura, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- JRDN: Jack Ye, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Johnston Almon: Photograph by William James Topley (1845-1930), from the collection of Library and Archives Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Carol A Mullen: Co1umbus, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Karen Walton: Canadian Film Centre from Toronto, Canada, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roy C. Firebrace: Major W.G. Horton, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Christine Hart: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeff Green: Not given. Copyright Jeff Green., CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).