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Dieppe-Memramcook

former provincial electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ5274971 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dieppe-Memramcook is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was known as Memramcook from 1974 to 1994, and renamed Dieppe-Memramcook, until its dissolution in 2006.

Following the 2023 redistribution, the riding was re-created out of parts of Dieppe and Memramcook-Tantramar.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Dieppe-Memramcook” as former provincial electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1994, 2006, 2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Dieppe-Memramcook, former and provincial can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as former provincial electoral district in New Brunswick, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5274971. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1994, 2006 and 2023.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Dieppe-Memramcook”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Dieppe-Memramcook primary sources, Dieppe-Memramcook archive and Dieppe-Memramcook 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.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Dieppe-Memramcook”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Dieppe-Memramcook” 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.