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St. Andrews (electoral district)

former provincial electoral district in Manitoba, Canada

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7586924 ↗
Source-derived summary

St. Andrews is an historical provincial electoral district in Manitoba, Canada. It existed on two separate occasions, and was located to the immediate north of Winnipeg, the capital city.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

When Manitoba joined Canadian Confederation in 1870, the St. Andrews region of the province was given two seats: St. Andrews North and St. Andrews South. It was consolidated into a single constituency following redistribution in 1879. In 1899, it was merged with the Kildonan constituency and Kildonan and St. Andrews.

Editorial summary

“St. Andrews (electoral district)” enters the record as former provincial electoral district in Manitoba, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Andrews, electoral and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1870, 1879, 1899—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Andrews, electoral and district.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“St. Andrews (electoral district)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Andrews, electoral and district provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7586924. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1870, 1879 and 1899.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. 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.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “St. Andrews (electoral district)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow St. Andrews (electoral district) primary sources, St. Andrews (electoral district) archive and Andrews 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

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “St. Andrews (electoral district)”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “St. Andrews (electoral district)” 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.