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- ↑ Dagenais, Maxime (September 6, 2017). "92 Resolutions". The Canadian Encyclopedia (online ed.). Historica Canada.
- ↑ Journals of the House of Assembly of Lower Canada, Session 1834, vol. 43, p. 337 (February 21, 1837).
