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Photo: David Asch · Public domainFamous people · Port-Daniel--Gascons, Quebec
The 4 famous people born in Port-Daniel--Gascons, led by Édouard Gagnon
Édouard Gagnon, the Catholic cardinal, is the most widely known, written about in 18 languages. Behind the leader come Hazel McCallion and Gérard D. Levesque. The biggest group are leaders: 3. From Édouard Gagnon to Raynald Blais, the births on the list run from 1918 to 1954.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Édouard Gagnon
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1918
Édouard Gagnon
Youngest
1954
Raynald Blais
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
The best known
Born in Port-Daniel--Gascons
Leaders take two of the three places.
HM#2
Politics & Law
Hazel McCallion
1921–2023Canadian politician
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GL#3
Politics & Law
Gérard D. Levesque
1926–1993Canadian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Port-Daniel--Gascons’s famous people were born
Politics & LawFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Port-Daniel--Gascons is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is leaders, at 3.4 times.
Compared with the usual town (everyone listed in Canadian towns, split by field). Tap a field to see the people in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Port-Daniel--Gascons
1 more, best known first.
Questions about famous people from Port-Daniel--Gascons
Who is the most famous person from Port-Daniel--Gascons?
Édouard Gagnon (catholic cardinal) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Hazel McCallion and Gérard D. Levesque.
How many famous people were born in Port-Daniel--Gascons?
Of the 6 Wikidata puts here, the rest have no English or French article that confirms it.
What is Port-Daniel--Gascons known for?
75% of the list, where Canadian towns come to 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Port-Daniel--Gascons?
The earliest is Édouard Gagnon, born in 1918, and the latest birth listed is 1954.
Who counts as from Port-Daniel--Gascons?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Port-Daniel--Gascons’ municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), 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.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each 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.
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).