Residents
Whitney Pier's residents can trace their ancestry to multiple ethnic backgrounds. The opening of the steel mill by the Dominion Steel Company in 1901 attracted many workers from Newfoundland, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia, Italy, the Caribbean and African Nova Scotians to settle in the area.
Notable people from Whitney Pier include:
- Godfrey Cambridge
- Nathan Cohen
- Carolyn Dunn
- Mayann Francis
- Austin Gallivan
- Danny Gallivan
- Gordie Gosse
- Paul MacEwan
- Valerie Miller
- Lisa Raitt
- Calvin Ruck
- Duncan Wells
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Famous quotes containing the word residents:
“Most of the folktales dealing with the Indians are lurid and romantic. The story of the Indian lovers who were refused permission to wed and committed suicide is common to many places. Local residents point out cliffs where Indian maidens leaped to their death until it would seem that the first duty of all Indian girls was to jump off cliffs.”
—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)