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Pierre Delorme

Canadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Pierre Delorme was a Métis fur trader, businessman, farmer and political figure. He represented Provencher in the House of Commons of Canada during the 1st Canadian Parliament as a Conservative member from 1871 to 1872. He also represented St. Norbert South in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1870 to 1874 and St. Norbert from 1878 to 1879.

Editorial summary

“Pierre Delorme” enters the record as canadian politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pierre, Delorme 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—1871, 1872, 1870, 1874—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pierre, Delorme and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Pierre Delorme” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pierre, Delorme 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 Aug 12, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1871, 1872, 1870 and 1874.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pierre Delorme” 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.