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Nolan Heavenor

Canadian lacrosse player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ20090881 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nolan Heavenor (born June 30, 1982 in Victoria, British Columbia) is Canadian a former professional box lacrosse transition player for the Calgary Roughnecks and Minnesota Swarm of the National Lacrosse League. He was drafted 17th overall by the Minnesota Swarm in the 2005 NLL Entry Draft from Limestone College (NCAA Division II). After playing his first season in 2006 for Minnesota, he was traded to the Calgary Roughnecks in exchange for a 2nd round (23rd overall) pick and 3rd round (31st overall) pick in the 2006 NLL Entry Draft.

Heavenor was part of three championship teams: 2009 NLL Champion's Cup with the Roughnecks, 2005 Western Lacrosse Association Mann Cup with the Victoria Shamrocks and the 2002 NCAA Division II Championship with Limestone College.

Editorial summary

“Nolan Heavenor” enters the record as canadian lacrosse player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nolan, Heavenor 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—1982, 2005, 2006, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-06-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Nolan, Heavenor and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Nolan Heavenor” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Nolan, Heavenor 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 Jun 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20090881. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1982, 2005, 2006 and 2009.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nolan Heavenor” 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.