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- ↑ "Corporal John Ogilvie Davidson".
- ↑ Image - Library and Archives Canada
- ↑ BC Names entry "Mount Skook Davidson"
- ↑ BC Names entry "Skooks Landing"
- ↑ The Newspapering Murrays, Georgina Keddell