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Ginette Magny

Canadian costume designer

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ3106735 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ginette Magny is a Canadian costume designer from Quebec. She is most noted for her work on the film C.R.A.Z.Y., for which she won both the Genie Award for Best Costume Design and the Jutra Award for Best Costume Design in 2006.

Editorial summary

“Ginette Magny” enters the record as canadian costume designer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ginette, Magny and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ginette, Magny and Canadian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3106735. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Ginette Magny” 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.