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- ↑ "New Brunswick Votes 2006: District Profiles". CBC News. Archived from the original on November 13, 2007.
1991: Weir defeated LIB John Mooney by 79 votes
- ↑ "2021 recipients of the Order of New Brunswick announced" (Press release). Government of New Brunswick. September 9, 2021.
- "Weir quits as leader of N.B. NDP". The Globe and Mail. October 8, 2004. Retrieved July 9, 2018.
- Women MLAs, New Brunswick Legislative Library