Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0No famous person from Vanier yet, but Pioneer Park next door has 3
The longest list in Ontario is Toronto’s, with 4,724 names. Ottawa has the second-longest list in Ontario, after Toronto, with 1,194. 386 of the towns in Ontario list at least one person. The best known born in Pioneer Park is Moses Springer.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Vanier’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Nobody born in Vanier with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Vanier
Questions about famous people from Vanier
Who counts as from Vanier?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Vanier’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere. 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?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here 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)
- Moses Springer: Notman & Fraser, 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).