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Pearson, Ontario

dispersed rural community in Casey, Ontario

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ115226013 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pearson is an unincorporated community in Ontario, Canada. It is recognized as a designated place by Statistics Canada.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pearson had a population of 343 living in 140 of its 157 total private dwellings, a change of −1.2% from its 2016 population of 347. With a land area of 143.24 km2 (55.31 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.4/km2 (6.2/sq mi) in 2021.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Pearson, Ontario” as dispersed rural community in Casey, Ontario. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pearson, Ontario and dispersed.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pearson, Ontario and dispersed providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Pearson, Ontario”, the useful work is to connect “dispersed rural community in Casey, Ontario” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q115226013. Authority coordinates are 47.644, -79.568. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021 and 2016.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Pearson, Ontario”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Pearson, Ontario primary sources, Pearson, Ontario archive and Pearson 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 “Pearson, Ontario”?
  2. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
  3. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Pearson, Ontario” 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.