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- ↑ Star, Shawn (November 2, 2010). "Don Mills loses a founder". Town Crier.
- ↑ "Macklin Hancock". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Retrieved October 18, 2022.
- 1 2 "Macklin Leslie Hancock". Globe and Mail. September 17, 2010.
- ↑ Macklin L. Hancock FCIP (1925–2010), Canadian Institute of Planners
