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- ↑ Boxing Canada
- ↑ "BC Amateur Boxing News", editor, Brian W. Zelley, President, George Armson
- ↑ Max Low. "Young boxers eager while vets look back", Victoria Times, February 1980.
- ↑ The Vancouver Sun newspaper, by Dave Empey
- ↑ "8.British Empire and Commonwealth Games - Kingston, Jamaica - August 4-13 1966". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ↑ 1967 Pan American Games schedule of events
- ↑ Boxing Canada