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Salluit Airport

airport in Salluit, Quebec, Canada

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ2892827 ↗
Source-derived summary

Salluit Airport (IATA: YZG, ICAO: CYZG) is located 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) southwest of the community of Salluit, Quebec, Canada. There are no roads into Salluit, so the airport provides the only means for the residents to access southern Quebec.

Scheduled service is provided by Air Inuit using Twin Otter and Dash 8 aircraft several times per week.

Editorial summary

“Salluit Airport” enters the record as airport in Salluit, Quebec, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Salluit, Airport and airport can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 61-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Salluit, Airport and airport.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Salluit Airport” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Salluit, Airport and airport provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2892827. Authority coordinates are 62.179, -75.667. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. 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 “Salluit Airport”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Salluit Airport primary sources, Salluit Airport archive and Salluit 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 “Salluit Airport”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Salluit Airport” 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.