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Gray Rocks

Gray Rocks was a year-round privately owned resort in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, Canada, first developed as a ski destination on Sugarloaf Hill ( ). The ski hill had 22 downhill trails: four easy, ten intermediate, eight expert (of which two were "double diamond"). Also available was a snowboarding park and instruction from the Snow Eagle Ski School. First opened in 1906, the hotel closed during the Great Recession of 2009; 70 percent of the main building was destroyed by a suspicious fire on the evening of 25 November 2014.

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Gray Rocks was a year-round privately owned resort in the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec, Canada, first developed as a ski destination on Sugarloaf Hill ( ). The ski hill had 22 downhill trails: four easy, ten intermediate, eight expert (of which two were "double diamond"). Also available was a snowboarding park and instruction from the Snow Eagle Ski School. First opened in 1906, the hotel closed during the Great Recession of 2009; 70 percent of the main building was destroyed by a suspicious fire on the evening of 25 November 2014.

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  1. date of establishment: 1905 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of establishment is "1905". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361633618

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