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Junior Herbert Staveley

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ105438769 ↗
Source-derived summary

Junior Herbert Staveley (December 25, 1909 – January 6, 1989) was a Canadian politician who represented Weyburn as a Liberal in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from December 13, 1961 to March 18, 1964.

Staveley previously served as mayor of Weyburn, Saskatchewan. He died in Victoria, British Columbia in 1989, aged 79.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Junior Herbert Staveley” is canadian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Junior, Herbert and Staveley, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1909, 1989, 1961, 1964—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Junior, Herbert and Staveley is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jun 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q105438769. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1909, 1989, 1961 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Junior Herbert Staveley” 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.