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Ray Ash

Canadian football player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ18021922 ↗
Source-derived summary

Raymond Bernard Ash (November 11, 1936 – May 24, 2016) was a Canadian professional football player who played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Edmonton Eskimos. He won the Grey Cup with Winnipeg in 1961 and 1962. He is a member of the Winnipeg High School Football Hall of Fame, inducted in 2008. Ash died in 2016 at the age of 79.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Ray Ash” as canadian football player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 2016, 1961, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-11-11. The account is most persuasive where Canadian, football and player can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as canadian football player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18021922. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1936, 2016, 1961 and 1962.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Ray Ash”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Ray Ash primary sources, Ray Ash archive and Canadian 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 “Ray Ash”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Ray Ash” 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.