#1Famous people · Strathcona, Hamilton
Strathcona has just one famous person to its name: Peter Jones
The Anglo-Canadian missionary Peter Jones was born in 1802. Their birth falls before Confederation. 10 languages have an article about them. Across Ontario, the lists cover 386 towns.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Peter Jones
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1802
Peter Jones
Most common field
Faith
1 person
The best known
Born in Strathcona
#1Questions about famous people from Strathcona
Who is the most famous person from Strathcona?
By our measure the best known is Peter Jones (Anglo-Canadian missionary); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Strathcona?
The list holds 1 born in Strathcona, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Strathcona known for?
The largest group is clergy and people of faith, 1 in all out of 1. Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 1%.
Who counts as from Strathcona?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Strathcona’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. 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)
- Peter Jones: Hill & Adamson, 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).