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Volume 1 (The Besnard Lakes album)

album by The Besnard Lakes

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ7940839 ↗
Source-derived summary

Volume 1 is the debut studio album from Canadian rock band The Besnard Lakes. Only a thousand copies were made for the 2003 release. The album was rereleased on a larger scale October 23, 2007.

The cover features the Princeton Similkameen Funeral Services home - the owner of which was charged in 2007 with fraud and offering an indignity to human remains.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Volume 1 (The Besnard Lakes album)” is album by The Besnard Lakes. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Volume, Besnard and Lakes, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. For this dossier, Volume, Besnard and Lakes is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “album by The Besnard Lakes” 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

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7940839. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2007.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. 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

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  • Finding collection records
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Volume 1 (The Besnard Lakes album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Volume 1 (The Besnard Lakes album) primary sources, Volume 1 (The Besnard Lakes album) archive and Volume 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 “Volume 1 (The Besnard Lakes album)” 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.