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Bill Malenfant

Canadian politician

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ2903285 ↗
Source-derived summary

William Malenfant (June 16, 1929 – December 16, 2016) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1974 to 1982, as a Liberal member for the constituency of Memramcook. He was also a former mayor of Dieppe, New Brunswick.

Malenfant died on December 16, 2016, at the age of 87.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 2016, 1974, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-06-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bill, Malenfant and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2903285. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929, 2016, 1974 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Malenfant” 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.