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Saint John's

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2213046
Source-derived summary

Saint John's or St. John's may refer to:

Places

Antigua and Barbuda

St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda, location of the Parliament of Antigua and Barbuda

Saint John, Antigua and Barbuda, parish of which St. John's is a part

Australia

St Johns, South Australia

St Johns Wood, Queensland, a neighbourhood in Brisbane, Australia

Canada

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, the capital and largest city of the province

St. Johns (electoral district), North Winnipeg, Manitoba

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John's, Newfoundland

St. Johns, Ontario

St. John's Island, British colony from 1763 to 1798, when it was renamed Prince Edward Island

St. John's (electoral district), a federal riding in Quebec from 1867 to 1892

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Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Saint John's” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1763, 1798, 1867, 1892—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Saint, John's and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Jun 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2213046. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1763, 1798, 1867 and 1892.

Critical limits

A concise general-reference account can conceal disagreements about scope, terminology or the weight assigned to individual sources. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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 Saint John's primary sources, Saint John's archive and Saint 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

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Saint John's” 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.