Of the 28 famous people born in Plateau, an unusual share are writers and artists

Simon Gagné (ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Charles Fitzpatrick and Théophile Hamel.

Wikidata places 42 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.

Here the share is 43%; across Canadian towns it is 38%.

Théophile Hamel, born in 1817. The youngest on the list was born in 1990.

Two sources must agree: Wikidata, placing the birth inside Plateau’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from) 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. In a city split into neighbourhoods (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), someone recorded as born only “in the city” stays on the city’s own page; a neighbourhood lists only births recorded in it.

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.