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Military
Alexander MacDonald Shook
1888–1966Canadian flying ace
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Famous people · Erindale, Mississauga
Erindale has one famous person on record
In 1888, the Canadian flying ace Alexander MacDonald Shook was born. That places their birth between Confederation and 1913. Their name appears in an article in one language. DT Hospital, 4 km off, can claim 2 famous people, the best known Douglas Kennedy.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Alexander MacDonald Shook
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1888
Alexander MacDonald Shook
Most common field
Military
1 person
The best known
Born in Erindale
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Famous people from the towns next door
Towns around it with someone on record: 1.
Questions about famous people from Erindale
Who is the most famous person from Erindale?
Alexander MacDonald Shook (Canadian flying ace) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Erindale?
Born in Erindale and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1.
What is Erindale known for?
Among its famous people, soldiers and sailors: 1 of the 1. They make up 100% here, compared with 2% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Erindale?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Erindale’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off the list. A neighbourhood page lists only births recorded in that neighbourhood; someone recorded as born just “in Toronto”, “in Montréal” or another split city stays on the city’s page.
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.
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