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Albert Edwin Honeywell
1878–1956Canadian politician
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Photo: Edwin Lester Brittain · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Britannia, Ottawa
Albert Edwin Honeywell, born in 1878, is Britannia’s famous person on record
In 1878, the Canadian politician Albert Edwin Honeywell was born. That places their birth between Confederation and 1913. Their story is told in one language so far. The nearest list is in Centrepointe - Briargreen, 3 km away: 17 names, starting with Sandra Oh.
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Albert Edwin Honeywell
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Questions about famous people from Britannia
Who is the most famous person from Britannia?
Albert Edwin Honeywell (Canadian politician) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them.
How many famous people were born in Britannia?
For Britannia the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Britannia known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. 100% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Britannia?
Born inside Britannia’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.
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).
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- Sandra Oh: Peabody Awards, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).