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Sports
Nicholas Tremblay
born 1988Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Famous people · Candiac, Quebec
2 famous people were born in Candiac
The best known, counted by the languages that write about them, is the Canadian ice hockey player Nicholas Tremblay. The other is Thomas Caron, the Canadian ice hockey player. Nearby, La Prairie, 4 km away, lists 23, led by Maxime Fortunus. From Nicholas Tremblay in 1988 to Thomas Caron in 2000, the births cover 12 years.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Nicholas Tremblay
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1988
Nicholas Tremblay
Youngest
2000
Thomas Caron
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Candiac
#2Sports
Thomas Caron
born 2000Canadian ice hockey player
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia (French) ↗
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
La Prairie · 4 kmMaxime Fortunus & 22 moreMCSaint-Constant · 5 kmMelissa Citrini-Beaulieu & 15 more
Saint-Philippe · 4 kmPierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault & 13 more
Brossard · 9 kmOlivier Occéan & 8 moreABSaint-Mathieu · 8 kmAbraham Bernard & 3 moreMCDelson · 3 kmMarcel Cousineau & 1 more
Sainte-Catherine · 4 kmCarl Ouellet & 1 moreSCVille-Émard · 10 kmSylvain Chicoine & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Candiac
Who is the most famous person from Candiac?
Nicholas Tremblay (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Thomas Caron.
How many famous people were born in Candiac?
Wikidata places 3 here in all; the others lack an article that agrees.
What is Candiac known for?
Here the share is 100%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Candiac?
The earliest is Nicholas Tremblay, born in 1988, and the latest birth listed is 2000.
Who counts as from Candiac?
Wikidata’s record must put the birth inside Candiac’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) or one of its hospitals or districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article must agree. The list leaves out adult performers, people known mainly for crimes and anyone born elsewhere.
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 (5)
- Thomas Caron: Zack2424chaaban, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maxime Fortunus: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pierre-Adolphe Pinsoneault: Fauteux, Aegidius, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Olivier Occéan: Илья Хохлов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carl Ouellet: Tabercil, 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).