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- ↑ Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture- Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- ↑ "Canadian Jazz Archive Online". 29 January 2001. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
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