Rennison Manners
1904–1944Canadian ice hockey player
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: SimonP at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0In 1904, the Canadian ice hockey player Rennison Manners was born. That places their birth between Confederation and 1913. Their name appears in articles in 5 languages. Centretown, 2 km away, has 6 on its list, the best known James Buckham Kennedy.
Canadian ice hockey player
The top name is Rennison Manners (Canadian ice hockey player), going by Wikipedia coverage.
For Sandy Hill the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are athletes. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 38% across Canadian towns.
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Sandy Hill’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.
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).
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