Photo: DebraJNolan · CC BY-SA 4.0Garden River 14 has yet to put a famous person on the list
Roberta Bondar heads the list in Sault Ste. Marie, 14 km away, which has 134 names. In all of Ontario, the famous people on record come from 386 towns. No town in Ontario lists more than Toronto, with 4,724. Second in Ontario is Ottawa (1,194 names), behind only Toronto.
Who’s listed here
Someone is listed here when Wikidata places their birth inside Garden River 14’s reserve lands and their English or French Wikipedia article agrees. So far Wikidata records nobody born in Garden River 14 who has an English or French Wikipedia article.
Famous people born near Garden River 14
The best known from each town within 20 km of Garden River 14, with how many people each has.
Questions about famous people from Garden River 14
Who counts as from Garden River 14?
Anyone Wikidata records as born at a place inside Garden River 14’s reserve lands (the reserve’s 2021 census subdivision), hospitals and districts within it included, whose English or French Wikipedia article confirms it. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes are left out.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata record may stop at the province, point to a rural area we have no page for, or name a different town, and their article may disagree or say nothing. Only a birthplace both sources share is listed; edits to either are picked up 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)
- Roberta Bondar: JSC/NASA, 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).