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Photo: D. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Cantley, Quebec
Cantley has just one famous person to its name: Steve Durand
The one name here is Steve Durand, the Canadian rock musician. The nearest list is in Lac-des-Fées, 13 km away: 87 names, starting with Daniel Lanois. Their story is told in one language so far. The Quebec lists hold names for 605 towns.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Steve Durand
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Cantley
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Questions about famous people from Cantley
Who is the most famous person from Cantley?
Steve Durand (Canadian rock musician) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Cantley?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Cantley according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Cantley known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 6% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Cantley?
Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Cantley’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision) 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.
Why is someone missing?
Often Wikidata names only Canada or a province as the birthplace, or a rural area, a hamlet or another town; sometimes the Wikipedia article names somewhere else, or nowhere. A person appears here once both agree, so a correction on either site reaches this page 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).
Photo credits (2)
- Daniel Lanois: Juan Manuel Parra, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denis Savard: Unknown author, 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).