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Summerside-St. Eleanors

provincial electoral district in Prince Edward Island, 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 revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ3503683 ↗
Source-derived summary

Summerside-St. Eleanors was a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Members

The riding has elected the following members of the Legislative Assembly:

Election results

Summerside-St. Eleanors, 1996–2019

2016 electoral reform plebiscite result

See also

List of Prince Edward Island provincial electoral districts

Canadian provincial electoral districts

References

Summerside-St.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Summerside-St. Eleanors” as provincial electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996, 2019, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-01-01. The account is most persuasive where Summerside-St, Eleanors and provincial can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as provincial electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Dec 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3503683. Authority coordinates are 46.412, -63.802. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2019 and 2016.

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 “Summerside-St. Eleanors”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Summerside-St. Eleanors primary sources, Summerside-St. Eleanors archive and Summerside-St 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 “Summerside-St. Eleanors”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Summerside-St. Eleanors” 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.