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Simon Pacey

rugby player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJan 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ125179791 ↗
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Simon Pacey (born November 21, 1974) is a Canadian former international rugby union player.

A Fredericton Loyalists product, Pacey left his native New Brunswick in 1996 to attend the Pacific Pride academy, joining the country's top under-23s players. He played for Castaway Wanderers during his time in British Columbia.

Pacey, a back, was capped once by Canada, coming on off the bench for the final 17-minutes of a 2005 Test against Wales at York Stadium in Toronto. This made him the first New Brunswick player to appear for Canada in a full international.

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The public source identifies “Simon Pacey” as rugby player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Simon, Pacey and rugby.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1996, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Simon, Pacey and rugby providing the first useful test.
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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 Jan 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q125179791. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1996 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Simon Pacey” 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.