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Bell Island Blues

senior ice hockey team based in Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ4883197 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Bell Island Blues are a senior ice hockey team based in Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. They are currently in their 4th season as part of the Avalon East Senior Hockey League.

History

In their first season in the St. John's Junior Hockey League in 1996, the team finished third and went on to win the following two seasons.

The team was renamed the CBR Renegades the 2007-2008 season.

The Blues were known as the Bell Island Wave prior to the 2010–11 season.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bell Island Blues” is senior ice hockey team based in Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bell, Island and Blues, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2007, 2008, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Bell, Island and Blues is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “senior ice hockey team based in Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4883197. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2007, 2008 and 2010.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Bell Island Blues”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Bell Island Blues primary sources, Bell Island Blues archive and Bell research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Bell Island Blues”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Bell Island Blues” 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.