NL#1
Politics & Law
Nil-Élie Larivière
1899–1969Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Bonfield, Ontario
2 famous people call Bonfield their birthplace
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian politician Nil-Élie Larivière is the best known. The other is Victor Martin, the Canadian politician. The nearest list is in Callander, 17 km away: 2 names, starting with Taylor Milne. The earliest on the list is Nil-Élie Larivière, born in 1899, and the youngest Victor Martin, born in 1903.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Nil-Élie Larivière
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1899
Nil-Élie Larivière
Youngest
1903
Victor Martin
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Bonfield
VM#2
Politics & Law
Victor Martin
1903–1950Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Questions about famous people from Bonfield
Who is the most famous person from Bonfield?
Nil-Élie Larivière (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Victor Martin.
What is Bonfield known for?
That is 100% of the town’s list, against 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bonfield?
Nil-Élie Larivière, from 1899; the most recent birth on the list is from 1903.
Who counts as from Bonfield?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Bonfield’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
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 (1)
- Taylor Milne: Citizen59, CC BY 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).