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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 British Columbia Lacrosse Association
- 1 2 By Year Archived 2014-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
- 1 2 Central Desktop
- ↑ Don Hamilton hockey statistics and profile at hockeydb.com
- ↑ http://wampsbibleoflacrosse.com/newstats/1968nllproWEST.txt [ bare URL plain text file ]
- ↑ "British Columbia Lacrosse Association". Bclaregistration.com. 1961-09-23. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
- ↑ Canadian Lacrosse
- ↑ Bible of Lacrosse - statistics
- ↑ Stan Shillington's "Who's Who in Lacrosse"by Stan Shillington Western Lacrosse Association. 2013.