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PeaceFest

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2023
Entity authorityQ16917370 ↗
Source-derived summary

PeaceFest is an annual music festival held in Peace River, Alberta. The festival was started in 1997 following a flood that destroyed much of downtown Peace River, and regularly draws crowds of over 10,000 people.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around PeaceFest, Open-knowledge and entry.
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“PeaceFest” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, PeaceFest, Open-knowledge and entry provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q16917370. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “PeaceFest” 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.