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Leland Payson Bancroft

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ6520785 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leland Payson Bancroft (August 6, 1880 – February 27, 1951) was a Canadian politician. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in 1921 as a Member of the Progressive Party for the riding of Selkirk. He was defeated in 1925 as a Liberal-Progressive, but, won in 1926 and was defeated again in 1930. He died in Vancouver in 1951.

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“Leland Payson Bancroft” enters the record as canadian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Leland, Payson and Bancroft can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1880, 1951, 1921, 1925—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1880-08-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Leland, Payson and Bancroft.
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Why this record matters

“Leland Payson Bancroft” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Leland, Payson and Bancroft provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6520785. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1880, 1951, 1921 and 1925.

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This entry incorporates text from “Leland Payson Bancroft” 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.