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Herbert James Symington

Canadian businessman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ16003915 ↗
Source-derived summary

Herbert James Symington, (November 22, 1881 – September 28, 1965) was a Canadian lawyer and businessman.

From 1941 to 1947 he was president of Trans-Canada Airlines. He was the founding president of the International Air Transport Association.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Herbert James Symington” as canadian businessman. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1881, 1965, 1941, 1947—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1881-11-22. The account is most persuasive where Herbert, James and Symington can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as canadian businessman. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16003915. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1881, 1965, 1941 and 1947.

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This entry incorporates text from “Herbert James Symington” 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.