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- ↑ "Yukon Election Result: H. C. Macaulay, T. W. O'Brien and Richard Gillespie Successful in Contested Districts — Joe Clarke Goes Down to Defeat". Whitehorse Star , April 13, 1905.
- ↑ "Yukon Election: Voting at Dawson and on Creeks Spirited". Whitehorse Star , April 19, 1907.
- 1 2 "First all-elected Yukon Territorial Council". Whitehorse Star , July 9, 1909.