HW#1
Politics & Law
Harold Edward Welsh
1896–1943Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Art Anderson · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Centre Hastings, Ontario
2 famous people call Centre Hastings their birthplace
Going by the number of languages that write about them, the Canadian politician Harold Edward Welsh is the best known. The list has one more: the Canadian politician Roscoe Lewis Robson. Just 7 km away, Madoc’s list holds 7 names, Charles Wilson Cross the best known. Over 1 years of births, the list goes from Harold Edward Welsh (1896) to Roscoe Lewis Robson (1897).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Harold Edward Welsh
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1896
Harold Edward Welsh
Youngest
1897
Roscoe Lewis Robson
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Centre Hastings
RR#2
Politics & Law
Roscoe Lewis Robson
1897–1964Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Questions about famous people from Centre Hastings
Who is the most famous person from Centre Hastings?
The top name is Harold Edward Welsh (Canadian politician), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Roscoe Lewis Robson.
How many famous people were born in Centre Hastings?
Wikidata places 4 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Centre Hastings known for?
They make up 100% here, compared with 22% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Centre Hastings?
The earliest is Harold Edward Welsh, born in 1896, and the latest birth listed is 1897.
Who counts as from Centre Hastings?
Born inside Centre Hastings’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
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)
- Bert Wemp: Unknown author, 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).