#1Sports
Eric Gelinas
born 1991Canadian ice hockey defenceman
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Vanier North, Ottawa
6 famous people come from Vanier North, Eric Gelinas the best known
Eric Gelinas, the Canadian ice hockey defenceman, is the most widely known, written about in 10 languages. Close behind are Andre Champagne and Bernard Grandmaître. The largest group, 3, was born between 1914 and 1945. Half or more of the towns in Ontario have no one on record, but this one has 5.7 for every 10,000 residents.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Eric Gelinas
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1895
Romeo Bégin
Youngest
1991
Eric Gelinas
Most common field
Sports
3 people
The best known
Born in Vanier North
Athletes take two of the three places.
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#2Sports
Andre Champagne
1943–2025Canadian ice hockey winger
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Bernard Grandmaître
1933–2025Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Vanier North’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1990s come out on top, with 1 births.
SportsPolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Vanier North is known for
Set against the usual town, leaders come out 2.3 times as common.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Vanier North
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The neighbour with the most names is Carson Grove - Carson Meadows, at 9.
Questions about famous people from Vanier North
Who is the most famous person from Vanier North?
Eric Gelinas (Canadian ice hockey defenceman) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them. Next come Andre Champagne and Bernard Grandmaître.
What is Vanier North known for?
They make up 50% here, compared with 38% across Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Vanier North?
The earliest is Romeo Bégin, born in 1895, and the latest birth listed is 1991.
Who counts as from Vanier North?
Born inside Vanier North’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. 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?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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 (5)
- Eric Gelinas: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andre Champagne: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bernard Grandmaître: Legislative Assembly of Ontario, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Grant Clitsome: Lisa Gansky, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Buckham Kennedy: Unknown author , Published by Montreal Perrault Print. Co, 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).