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1995 Canada Cup

1995 edition of the Canada Cup association football tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ4590249 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Canada Cup (a.k.a. Maple Cup) of 1995 was an international football (soccer) tournament, played at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from May 22, 1995 to May 28, 1995.

Editorial summary

“1995 Canada Cup” enters the record as 1995 edition of the Canada Cup association football tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Canada, edition and association can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Canada, edition and association.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“1995 Canada Cup” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Canada, edition and association provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4590249. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “1995 Canada Cup”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow 1995 Canada Cup primary sources, 1995 Canada Cup archive and Canada research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “1995 Canada Cup”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “1995 Canada Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.