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- ↑ Lewis H. Thomas, "Welsh Settlement in Saskatchewan, 1902-1914" Western Historical Quarterly 4(4)(October 1973): 435-449. doi: 10.2307/967286
- ↑ Canadian Department of the Interior, Annual Report (1906): 86.
- ↑ Wayne Davies, "Welsh Settlement" in Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan (Canadian Plains Research Center).
- ↑ Meredith Black Banting, Early History of Saskatchewan Churches (1975): 198.
- ↑ Cyril Williams, "Religion and Welsh Nationality" in Harold B. Barclay, Harold Coward, and Leslie S. Kawamura, Religion and Ethnicity (Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 1978): 162.
- ↑ Eryl Crump, "The Forgotten Story of the Welsh Migration from Patagonia to Canada" Daily Post (22 December 2015).