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Rivière-du-Loup station

railway station in Rivière-du-Loup, Canada

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ3097417 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rivière-du-Loup station is a railway station in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada. Rivière-du-Loup is served by Via Rail's Ocean train. Previously, it was also served by the Montreal–Gaspé train. Both trains shared the same rail line between Montreal and Matapédia. Located on Rue Lafontaine, it is staffed and offers limited wheelchair accessibility.

Editorial summary

“Rivière-du-Loup station” enters the record as railway station in Rivière-du-Loup, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rivière-du-Loup, station and railway 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 50-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 Rivière-du-Loup, station and railway.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Rivière-du-Loup station” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rivière-du-Loup, station and railway provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3097417. Authority coordinates are 47.825, -69.528. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Rivière-du-Loup station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Rivière-du-Loup station primary sources, Rivière-du-Loup station archive and Rivière-du-Loup 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 “Rivière-du-Loup station”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Rivière-du-Loup station” 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.