Photo: Gabriel Picard · CC BY-SA 4.0No one from Bourg-Royal is on the famous people list yet
For more famous names, Vieux-Limoilou is 6 km away: its list has 5, led by Gilles Jobidon. Across Quebec, 605 towns list someone born there. Montréal has the most of any town in Quebec: 5,278. Second in Quebec is Québec (1,179 names), behind only Montréal.
Who’s listed here
To appear on this page, a person needs a Wikidata birthplace inside Bourg-Royal’s neighbourhood outline and an English or French Wikipedia article that says the same. Nobody born in Bourg-Royal with an English or French Wikipedia article is on Wikidata yet.
Famous people born near Bourg-Royal
Questions about famous people from Bourg-Royal
Who counts as from Bourg-Royal?
The list takes people born within Bourg-Royal’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), its hospitals and districts too, as Wikidata records it and an English or French Wikipedia article confirms. It leaves out residents born elsewhere, adult performers and people chiefly known for crimes. Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the other split cities keep a birth recorded only as the city on the city’s own page, while each neighbourhood lists just the births recorded in it.
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 (2)
- Gilles Jobidon: Bull-Doser, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Roger Blais: Cinémathèque québécoise, 2007.0071.PH.02, 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).