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Manitoba Provincial Road 500

highway in Manitoba, Canada

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2024
Entity authorityQ6750146 ↗
Source-derived summary

Provincial Road 500 (PR 500) is a provincial secondary highway located in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It runs from PTH 12, southeast of Grand Beach, to PTH 12/PTH 59 near Beaconia.

Route description

Communities along the route

Beaconia

Notable places along the route

Lake Winnipeg's east coast.

Patricia and Grand beaches, clothing-optional.

Editorial summary

“Manitoba Provincial Road 500” enters the record as highway in Manitoba, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Manitoba, Provincial and Road can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Manitoba, Provincial and Road.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Manitoba Provincial Road 500” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Manitoba, Provincial and Road provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6750146. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Manitoba Provincial Road 500 primary sources, Manitoba Provincial Road 500 archive and Manitoba research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Manitoba Provincial Road 500” 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.