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- ↑ Prime Minister announces new Commissioner and Administrator of Yukon
- ↑ "PM welcomes Douglas George Phillips as Yukon's next Commissioner". Archived July 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine Prime Minister of Canada's website, November 30, 2010. Accessed March 1, 2011.
- 1 2 3 Tobin, Chuck (December 1, 2010). "Choice of Next Commissioner Praised". Whitehorse Daily Star. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 Biography of Douglas Phillips. Archived December 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Commissioner of Yukon website.
- ↑ "Former MLA named Yukon's new commissioner." CBC News, November 30, 2010. Accessed March 1, 2011.
- ↑ "Meet this year's inductees to the Order of Yukon". CBC News. December 3, 2020.