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1st Canadian Division

Canadian Maneouvre Division based at CFB Edmonton, Alberta

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The 1st Canadian Division is the Canadian Army's manoeuvre division based at CFB Edmonton. It encompasses all Regular Force units within the Canadian Army.

Editorial summary

“1st Canadian Division” enters the record as canadian Maneouvre Division based at CFB Edmonton, Alberta. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Canadian, Division and Maneouvre can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 24-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Canadian, Division and Maneouvre.
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“1st Canadian Division” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Canadian, Division and Maneouvre provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “1st Canadian Division” 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.