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- ↑ Your East Kootenay Candidates: [Final Edition] Daily Townsman [Cranbrook, B.C] 14 May 2001: 12.
- ↑ Women Members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Archived February 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Ms. Erda Walsh". Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. Retrieved March 7, 2012.
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