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- ↑ "Your Open House Invitation for the Next 2 Weeks". The Ottawa Real Estate Board. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
- ↑ minutes of Directors’ meeting of June 16, 1949, held on file at OREB offices; also article in the Ottawa Citizen, June 14, 1963
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- ↑ "Strategic Plan" (PDF). OREB. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 January 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
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