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Prince George North

former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, 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 revisionJul 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ7244025 ↗
Source-derived summary

Prince George North was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada, from 1979 to 2009.

Demographics

Members of the Legislative Assembly

The last member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) was the Hon. Pat Bell. He was first elected in 2001 and represented the British Columbia Liberal Party. Mr. Bell was appointed Minister of State for Mining on January 26, 2004, and on June 16, 2005, after the 2005 election, was appointed the Minister of Agriculture and Lands.

Editorial summary

“Prince George North” enters the record as former provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Prince, George and North can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1979, 2009, 2001, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Prince, George and North.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Prince George North” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Prince, George and North provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jul 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7244025. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2009, 2001 and 2004.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. 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 “Prince George North”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Prince George North primary sources, Prince George North archive and Prince 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 “Prince George North”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Prince George North” 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.