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Sports
Armand Mondou
1905–1976Canadian ice hockey player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Yamaska, Quebec
From 1786 to 1984, Yamaska was the birthplace of 6 famous people
Articles in 3 languages make the Canadian ice hockey player Armand Mondou the best known. The Canadian fur trader Alexis Bonami ranks second, ahead of Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour. The list reaches back to Marie-Joseph Godefroy de Tonnancour, born in 1786, one of 4 born before Confederation. Most were born before Confederation: 4 of them.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Armand Mondou
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1786
Marie-Joseph Godefroy de Tonnancour
Youngest
1984
Xavier Watso
Most common field
Politics & Law
3 people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Yamaska’s famous people were born
Politics & LawSportsBusinessScience & Medicine
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Yamaska
Counted by languages, Armand Mondou is ahead of Alexis Bonami and Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour: 3, 2 and 2.
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LT#3
Politics & Law
Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour
1793–1867Canadian politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Yamaska is known for
Yamaska has 2.3× the usual share of leaders.
Each field is set against the usual town, its share among everyone listed in Canadian towns. Tap one to see who is in it.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Yamaska
Still to come: 3 more, from 1786 to 1984.
Xavier Watso
born 1984Abenaki teacher, content creator, and activist
Science & MedicineWikipedia (French) ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Sorel-Tracy has the most people on record, 87 of them.
Sorel-Tracy · 16 kmMarc-André Fleury & 86 morePBBaie-du-Febvre · 20 kmPierre Beaubien & 9 moreCGSaint-François-du-Lac · 10 kmCharles-Ignace Gill & 7 moreABPierreville · 11 kmAimé Boucher & 6 moreMCSaint-Joseph-de-Sorel · 16 kmMichèle Cournoyer & 2 moreTRSaint-Guillaume · 18 kmThéogène Ricard & 1 moreFGSainte-Victoire-de-Sorel · 14 kmFélix GatineauQuestions about famous people from Yamaska
Who is the most famous person from Yamaska?
Armand Mondou (Canadian ice hockey player) heads the list, ranked by how many Wikipedias cover them. Next come Alexis Bonami and Léonard Godefroy de Tonnancour.
How many famous people were born in Yamaska?
Wikidata counts 9 born here, but only those an article confirms are listed.
What is Yamaska known for?
Here the share is 50%; across Canadian towns it is 22%.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Yamaska?
The earliest is Marie-Joseph Godefroy de Tonnancour, born in 1786, and the latest birth listed is 1984.
Who counts as from Yamaska?
The list takes people born within Yamaska’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), 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.
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 (1)
- Marc-André Fleury: Michael Miller, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).