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Giuseppe du Toit

Canadian rugby union player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ70341280 ↗
Source-derived summary

Giuseppe du Toit (born 29 July 1995) is a Canadian rugby union player who generally plays as a centre for the Toronto Arrows in Major League Rugby (MLR). He also represents Canada internationally.

On 27 September 2019, he was included in the Canadian squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup as an injury replacement to Nick Blevins and also marked his first World Cup appearance.

Career

He made his international debut for Canada against Chile on 11 February 2017. He received his maiden World Cup call for the 2019 World Cup while he was pursuing his studies at the University of Victoria and made his debut World Cup match appearance against South Africa on 5 October 2019.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Giuseppe du Toit” is canadian rugby union player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Giuseppe, Toit and Canadian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1995, 2019, 2017—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-07-29. For this dossier, Giuseppe, Toit and Canadian is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q70341280. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2019 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Giuseppe du Toit” 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.