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- ↑ "Our past can help shape our future: The Canadian Friends Historical Association". 23 February 2015.
- ↑ "Home". cfha.info.
- ↑ Maria Canton, Quakers here to explore link to Underground Railroad, Owen Sound Sun Times, Monday, September 22, 2008
- ↑ "Canada Revenue Agency/Agence du revenu du Canada". 27 November 2019.
- ↑ "CFHA Transcriptions". cfha.info. Archived from the original on 2015-02-04.
- ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~saylormowbray/quakbooks.html [ user-generated source ]