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Writing & Arts
Gilles Cyr
born 1940Canadian poet and writer
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia (French) ↗
Photo: Donat-C. Noiseux · Public domainFamous people · Pointe-à-la-Croix, Quebec
Gilles Cyr, born in 1940, is Pointe-à-la-Croix’s famous person on record
In 1940, the Canadian poet and writer Gilles Cyr was born. That places their birth between 1914 and 1945. Their story is told in one language so far. Of its neighbours, Campbellton, 3 km away, lists the most: 36, René Lévesque first.
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Gilles Cyr
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1940
Gilles Cyr
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Writing & Arts
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Questions about famous people from Pointe-à-la-Croix
Who is the most famous person from Pointe-à-la-Croix?
Gilles Cyr (Canadian poet and writer) comes first, by the number of Wikipedia languages that cover them.
How many famous people were born in Pointe-à-la-Croix?
For Pointe-à-la-Croix the list comes to 1, every birthplace backed by an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Pointe-à-la-Croix known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are writers and artists. They make up 100% here, compared with 12% across Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Pointe-à-la-Croix?
Born inside Pointe-à-la-Croix’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?
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 (1)
- René Lévesque: Yves Beauchamp, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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