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Politics & Law
Mary Adams
1823–1898Women's education reformer
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Mario Hains · CC BY-SA 3.0Famous people · Westbury, Quebec
Westbury has just one famous person to its name: Mary Adams
The women's education reformer Mary Adams was born in 1823. Their birth falls before Confederation. Readers can find them written up in 5 languages. Pierre Bourgault heads the list in East Angus, 2 km away, which has 9 names.
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Mary Adams
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1823
Mary Adams
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Politics & Law
1 person
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Questions about famous people from Westbury
Who is the most famous person from Westbury?
The top name is Mary Adams (women's education reformer), going by Wikipedia coverage.
How many famous people were born in Westbury?
Count on the list: 1, each born in Westbury according to Wikidata and an English or French Wikipedia article.
What is Westbury known for?
Of the 1 on the list, 1 are leaders. 100% here, set against 22% for Canadian towns.
Who counts as from Westbury?
Wikidata has to place the birth inside Westbury’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), counting its hospitals and districts, and an English or French Wikipedia article has to say the same. Adult performers, people known mostly for crimes and anyone who only lived here stay off 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. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
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- Rufus Henry Pope: William James Topley, 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).