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Alexander Chisholm (Upper Canada politician)

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 20, 2023
Entity authorityQ4718597 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alexander Chisholm (1790 – October 9, 1854) was a political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Scotland in 1790 and migrated to Glengarry County in 1817. In 1825, he became a colonel in the local militia. He represented the county in the 12th and 13th Parliaments. He died at Alexandria in 1854.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Alexander Chisholm (Upper Canada politician)” as canadian politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1790, 1854, 1817, 1825—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1790. The account is most persuasive where Alexander, Chisholm and Upper can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as canadian politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 20, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4718597. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1790, 1854, 1817 and 1825.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alexander Chisholm (Upper Canada politician)” 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.