MC#1
Faith
Martin William Currie
born 1943Canadian Roman Catholic prelate
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Sheet Harbour, Halifax
Leaders stand out among the 8 famous people born in Sheet Harbour
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian Roman Catholic prelate Martin William Currie. The list reaches back to Matthew Hutchinson, born in 1843, one of 3 born before Confederation. For every 10,000 residents there are 24 on the list, well above the typical Nova Scotia town’s 10.9. The longest list of any town in Nova Scotia belongs to Halifax, with 397.
Born here
8
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Martin William Currie
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1843
Matthew Hutchinson
Youngest
1945
Tom McInnis
Most common field
Politics & Law
7 people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Sheet Harbour is known for
Leaders stand out most, at 4 times the usual share.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Through the years
When Sheet Harbour’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1940s come out on top, with 2 births.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Sheet Harbour
DS#2
Politics & Law
Dugald Stewart
1862–1932Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Matthew Hutchinson
1843–1926Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Sheet Harbour
The other 5 span the years 1862 to 1945.
No one matches both filters.
Questions about famous people from Sheet Harbour
Who is the most famous person from Sheet Harbour?
Martin William Currie (Canadian Roman Catholic prelate) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Dugald Stewart and Matthew Hutchinson.
How many famous people were born in Sheet Harbour?
Wikidata counts 11 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Sheet Harbour known for?
They make up 88% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Sheet Harbour?
The earliest is Matthew Hutchinson, born in 1843, and the latest birth listed is 1945.
Who counts as from Sheet Harbour?
Born inside Sheet Harbour’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. 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?
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 (1)
- Matthew Hutchinson: Jules-Isaïe Benoît, 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).