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Allan MacEachen

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Allan Joseph MacEachen was a Canadian politician and statesman who served as a senator and several times as a Cabinet minister. He was the first deputy prime minister of Canada and served from 1977 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984.

Editorial summary

“Allan MacEachen” enters the record as canadian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Allan, MacEachen and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1979, 1980, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Allan, MacEachen and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Allan MacEachen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Allan, MacEachen and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 5, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1977, 1979, 1980 and 1984.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Allan MacEachen” 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.