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- ↑ "Edwin Cyrus Graves, MPP". Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ↑ "Elected Municipal Councils of St. Catharines 1845–2014" (PDF). City of St. Catharines. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 22, 2012. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ↑ "Lincoln Ex-Member Killed Near Buffalo: Three Injured as Autos Collide--St. Catharines Man Swung Too Far, Reports Say" The Globe (1844-1936) [Toronto, Ont] October 9, 1936: 9.
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