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- ↑ The Ontario Government's site, http://www.onterm.gov.on.ca/geo/details_e.asp?letter=n&ind=401 lists New Canaan as a "displaced rural community".
- ↑ G., Hill, Daniel (1981). The freedom-seekers : Blacks in early Canada. Agincourt, Canada: Book Society of Canada. p. 48. ISBN 0772552835. OCLC 8114887.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Hill, pg. 48: "From 1820s onward, refugees migrated into the townships, villages, and towns of Essex County, including Anderdon, Mersea, Gosfield, Colchester, Maidstone, Rochester, Fort Malden, Harrow, New Canaan, and Amherstburg."
- ↑ "Biography – DAVIS, DELOS ROGEST – Volume XIV (1911-1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 27 January 2021.