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Beaver Ranch 163A

Indian reserve in Tallcree

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ85746214 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beaver Ranch 163A is an Indian reserve of the Tallcree First Nation in Alberta, located within Mackenzie County. It is 82 kilometres east of High Level.

Editorial summary

“Beaver Ranch 163A” enters the record as indian reserve in Tallcree. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Beaver, Ranch and 163A can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 26-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 Beaver, Ranch and 163A.
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“Beaver Ranch 163A” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Beaver, Ranch and 163A provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85746214. Authority coordinates are 58.464, -115.717. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Beaver Ranch 163A” 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.