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Joe Fisher (ice hockey)

Canadian ice hockey player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ6209846 ↗
Source-derived summary

Joseph Henry Fisher (July 4, 1916 – April 13, 2002) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.

Early life

Fisher was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

Career

Fisher played 64 games in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings between 1939 and 1943. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1934 to 1949, was spent in the minor leagues.

Editorial summary

“Joe Fisher (ice hockey)” enters the record as canadian ice hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fisher, hockey 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—1916, 2002, 1939, 1943—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-07-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fisher, hockey and Canadian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Joe Fisher (ice hockey)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fisher, hockey and Canadian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6209846. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1916, 2002, 1939 and 1943.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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  • Building a first chronology
  • 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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Joe Fisher (ice hockey)” 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.