#1Politics & Law
Gordon Shrum
1896–1985Canadian civil servant
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Smithville, Ontario
Gordon Shrum is the only name on the Smithville list
The Canadian civil servant Gordon Shrum was born in 1896. Their birth falls between Confederation and 1913. 2 languages have an article about them. For more famous names, Grimsby is 11 km away: its list has 19, led by Tonya Verbeek.
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Gordon Shrum
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
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1896
Gordon Shrum
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Politics & Law
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Questions about famous people from Smithville
Who is the most famous person from Smithville?
The top name is Gordon Shrum (Canadian civil servant), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Smithville?
The list holds 1 born in Smithville, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article. Wikidata places 5 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Smithville known for?
Mostly leaders: 1 of the 1 people listed. 100% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who counts as from Smithville?
Born inside Smithville’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
Why is someone missing?
The likeliest reasons: a birthplace recorded only as a province or as Canada, a hamlet or rural area with no page of its own, or an article that gives another place or none. Fixing Wikidata or Wikipedia brings them onto the list at the next refresh, as long as the two then agree.
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 (4)
- Gordon Shrum: Simon Fraser University - Communications & Marketing, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Tonya Verbeek: Madchester at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Nina Arsenault: Nancy Paiva from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- E. D. Smith: The Perrault Printing 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).