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Hugh Elliott Eaglesham

Canadian politician (1873-1938)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ16023222 ↗
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Hugh Elliott Eaglesham (June 3, 1873 – 12 October 1938) was a Canadian physician and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Weyburn from 1934 to 1938 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal.

He was born in Clifford, Ontario, the son of Hugh Eaglesham and Margaret Marshall, and was educated in Harriston and at Trinity Medical College. In 1896, he married Mary Fletcher. Eaglesham served as president of the Saskatchewan Medical Council and was coroner for Weyburn, Saskatchewan. Eaglesham defeated Tommy Douglas to win his seat in the provincial assembly in 1934.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hugh Elliott Eaglesham” as canadian politician (1873-1938). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1873, 1938, 1934, 1896—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1873-06-03. The account is most persuasive where Hugh, Elliott and Eaglesham can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as canadian politician (1873-1938). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 May 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16023222. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1873, 1938, 1934 and 1896.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hugh Elliott Eaglesham” 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.