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36th Vanier Cup

2000 Canadian university football championship

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ4635789 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 36th Vanier Cup was played on December 2, 2000, at the SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario, and decided the CIAU football champion for the 2000 season. The Ottawa Gee-Gees won their second championship in school history by defeating the Regina Rams by a score of 42-39.

Game summary

Ottawa Gee-Gees (42) - TDs, Côté (2), Shaver, Ajram, DiBattista (2); cons., Lee-Yaw (6).

Regina Rams (39) - TDs, Leason (2), Clermont, Hughes, Warnecke; FGs Ryan; cons., Ryan (3), Olynick.

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“36th Vanier Cup” enters the record as 2000 Canadian university football championship. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what 36th, Vanier and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around 36th, Vanier and Canadian.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4635789. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “36th Vanier 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.