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- ↑ "Canadian National Squash Doubles Champions" (PDF). Squash Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- ↑ "Seventeen-time U.S. Champion Gordon Anderson inducted into Ontario Squash Hall of Fame". US SQUASH. 2013-04-05. Retrieved 2019-09-08.