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Sid Armour

Canadian make-up artist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ28530046 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sid Armour is a Canadian make-up artist. She is known for her work on the television film The Road to Christmas in 2006 and the films Diary of the Dead (2007) and Room (2015).

She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Makeup for Room in 2016. While some of the Canadian Screen Award-winners for the film were not Canadian, Armour was noted along with Jacob Tremblay, Ethan Tobman and Mary Kirkland as among the film's Canadian award recipients. Afterwards, she joined the make-up crew for the 2016 Canadian film The Other Half.

Editorial summary

“Sid Armour” enters the record as canadian make-up artist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Armour, Canadian and make-up can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2007, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Armour, Canadian and make-up.
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Why this record matters

“Sid Armour” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Armour, Canadian and make-up provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q28530046. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2006, 2007, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sid Armour” 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.