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Beaver Lake 17

First Nation reserve in Nova Scotia, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ4878116 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beaver Lake 17 is a small Mi'kmaq reserve on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada, in the Halifax Regional Municipality. It is located on Route 224 about 21 km (13 mi) northwest of Sheet Harbour and about 20 km (12 mi) southeast of Upper Musquodoboit. The community is located adjacent to Lower Beaver Lake and is located within the community of Beaver Dam. It is adjacent to Lower Beaver Lake.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Beaver Lake 17” as first Nation reserve in Nova Scotia, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 71-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Beaver, Lake and First can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as first Nation reserve in Nova Scotia, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4878116. Authority coordinates are 45.022, -62.764. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beaver Lake 17” 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.