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- ↑ "'Strange things out there': Inside Lake Ontario's 'Bermuda Triangle'". globalnews.ca. 28 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- 1 2 3 Michael J. Varhola (1 October 2007), Shipwrecks and Lost Treasures, Great Lakes: Legends and Lore, Pirates and More!, Globe Pequot Press, pp. 133–, ISBN 978-0-7627-4492-3
- ↑ Barbara Wall La Rocque (13 August 2009), Wolfe Island: A Legacy in Stone, Dundurn, pp. 145–, ISBN 978-1-77070-609-5
- ↑ Book Review Digest, H.W. Wilson Company, 1980
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