John Lewis
1858–1935Author, senator, and newspaper editor from Canada
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Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0John Lewis came into the world in 1858. Their birth falls before Confederation. 3 languages have an article about them. Nearby, Cabbagetown-South St.James Town, 1 km away, lists one, Larry Gains.
Author, senator, and newspaper editor from Canada
Close by, Cabbagetown-South St.James Town counts one famous person.
The top name is John Lewis (author, senator, and newspaper editor from Canada), going by Wikipedia coverage.
The list holds 1 born in Yonge-Bay Corridor, each confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
Mostly writers and artists: 1 of the 1 people listed. They make up 100% here, compared with 12% across Canadian towns.
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Yonge-Bay Corridor’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list. 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.
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.
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