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- ↑ "No vote will plunge Canada into uncertainty, Rae warns," Kitchener-Waterloo Record, 2 October 1992, p. 6.
- ↑ He was forty-seven years old at the time. See Kate Shingler, "Le Cavalier and Voyer battle it out for District 5," Sherbrooke Record, 26 November 2002, p. 4; "Poulin elected to lead new city of Magog," Sherbrooke Record, 2 December 2002, p. 1.
- ↑ Rita Legault, "Demerger and status quo advocates gear up for referendum," Sherbrooke Record, 31 May 2004, p. 1; "Quinze personnalités s'affichent en faveur du maintien de la Ville de Magog", Radio-Canada, 12 May 2004, accessed 25 February 2011.
- ↑ Jean-François Gagnon, "La SDC de Magog tirée d'impasse," cyberpress.ca, 30 January 2007, accessed 25 February 2011. Archived 6 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine