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Hammy Gillespie

Canadian ice hockey player (1898-1973)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2024
Entity authorityQ16007390 ↗
Source-derived summary

Donald Stewart "Hammy" Gillespie (August 23, 1898 – January 6, 1973) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Edmonton Eskimos in the Western Canada Hockey League in the 1921–22 season. Previously, he also played with Selkirk of the Manitoba Hockey Association. He died suddenly at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1973. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the same city.

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The public source identifies “Hammy Gillespie” as canadian ice hockey player (1898-1973). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hammy, Gillespie and Canadian.

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—1898, 1973, 1921—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1898-08-23. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hammy, Gillespie and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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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 Dec 31, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q16007390. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1973 and 1921.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hammy Gillespie” 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.