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- ↑ Davis, Richard Clarke; Ruggles, Richard I. (1988), Rupert's Land: a cultural tapestry, Calgary Institute for the Humanities Series, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, p. 197, ISBN 978-0-88920-976-3 .
- ↑ Oltmann, Ruth (1997), My Valley: The Kananaskis, Rocky Mountain Books, p. 13, ISBN 978-0-921102-40-3 .
- ↑ Cook, Eung-Do (1984), A Sarcee grammar, UBC Press, p. 3, ISBN 978-0-7748-0200-0 .
- ↑ Spry, Irene M. (1959), "Captain John Palliser and the Exploration of Western Canada", The Geographical Journal, 125 (2): 149–184, doi:10.2307/1790499, JSTOR 1790499 .
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