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Rainy Lake 18C

Indian reserve in Ontario, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ21070976 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rainy Lake 18C is a First Nations reserve on Rainy Lake in Rainy River District, Ontario. It is the main reserve of the Mitaanjigamiing First Nation.

Editorial summary

“Rainy Lake 18C” enters the record as indian reserve in Ontario, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rainy, Lake and Indian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 26-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rainy, Lake and Indian.
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Why this record matters

“Rainy Lake 18C” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rainy, Lake and Indian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Sep 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q21070976. Authority coordinates are 48.700, -93.367. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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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This entry incorporates text from “Rainy Lake 18C” 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.