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Fenton, Saskatchewan

human settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ5443603 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fenton, formerly Adams Crossing, is an unincorporated community south-east of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. It is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) west from Birch Hills. Fenton is on the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, east of Halcro and south-west of the Muskoday First Nation. The Fenton Ferry is operational seasonally and hosts mainly local traffic. Fenton has a long history dating back to Anglo-Metis settlement before the North-West Rebellion. It is situated in the Aspen parkland biome.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Fenton, Saskatchewan” as human settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 77-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 Fenton, Saskatchewan and human can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Saskatchewan, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5443603. Authority coordinates are 53.016, -105.593. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fenton, Saskatchewan” 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.