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Harold Gault

Canadian politician (1896-1955)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ28051531 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harold Burton Gault (March 30, 1896 – October 4, 1955) was a Canadian politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Liberal party from 1948 to 1952.

Editorial summary

“Harold Gault” enters the record as canadian politician (1896-1955). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Harold, Gault 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—1896, 1955, 1948, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1896-03-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Harold, Gault and Canadian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Harold Gault” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Harold, Gault 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 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28051531. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1896, 1955, 1948 and 1952.

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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  • 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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  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Harold Gault” 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.