#1Notable
Bruce Boutlier McLean
1858–193019th-century Boston maritime pilot.
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Famous people · Upper Tantallon, Halifax
Upper Tantallon is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Counted by the languages that write about them, Bruce Boutlier McLean is the best known. The other is Lytton Shatford, the Canadian politician. Over 15 years of births, the list goes from Bruce Boutlier McLean (1858) to Lytton Shatford (1873). The neighbour with the longest list is Bedford, 16 km away: 5, led by Ante Jazić.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bruce Boutlier McLean
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1858
Bruce Boutlier McLean
Youngest
1873
Lytton Shatford
The best known
Born in Upper Tantallon
#1#2Politics & Law
Lytton Shatford
1873–1920Canadian politician
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Known for
What Upper Tantallon is known for
Leaders are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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Questions about famous people from Upper Tantallon
Who is the most famous person from Upper Tantallon?
Bruce Boutlier McLean (19th-century Boston maritime pilot.) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Lytton Shatford.
How many famous people were born in Upper Tantallon?
3 are placed here on Wikidata; the rest have no article to confirm it.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Upper Tantallon?
Bruce Boutlier McLean (1858). At the other end, the youngest was born in 1873.
Who counts as from Upper Tantallon?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Upper Tantallon’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), 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. 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 (3)
- Bruce Boutlier McLean: Photo by Horner., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lytton Shatford: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ante Jazić: Djuradj Vujcic, CC BY 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).