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Roger Hamelin

Canadian football player (1941-2018)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ19518831 ↗
Source-derived summary

Roger Hamelin (April 27, 1941 - November 25, 2018) was a Canadian professional football player who played for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He won the Grey Cup with them in 1961 and 1962. He is a member of the Football Manitoba Hall of Fame, inducted 2013. He died on November 25, 2018.

Editorial summary

“Roger Hamelin” enters the record as canadian football player (1941-2018). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Roger, Hamelin 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—1941, 2018, 1961, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-04-27. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Roger, Hamelin and Canadian.
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Why this record matters

“Roger Hamelin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Roger, Hamelin 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 Apr 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19518831. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941, 2018, 1961 and 1962.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Roger Hamelin” 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.