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Southend 200

First Nation reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ22586898
Source-derived summary

Southend 200 is an Indian reserve of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan about 402 kilometres (250 mi) north-east of Prince Albert. The reserve is at the southern end of Reindeer Lake and is part of the community of Southend.

In the 2016 Canadian Census, it recorded a population of 917 living in 177 of its 206 total private dwellings. In the same year, its Community Well-Being index was calculated at 43 of 100, compared to 58.4 for the average First Nations community and 77.5 for the average non-Indigenous community.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Southend 200” is first Nation reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Southend, First and Nation, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Southend, First and Nation is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “first Nation reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q22586898. Authority coordinates are 56.335, -103.192. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2016.

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A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. 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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Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Southend 200 primary sources, Southend 200 archive and Southend 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.

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This entry incorporates text from Southend 200” 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.