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- ↑ Richard Reid, "Johnston, James", Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. VII (1836-50).
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- ↑ Government of Canada: History of the Canada Gazette.
- ↑ National Battlefields Commission: Plains of Abraham — Wolfe Monument.
- 1 2 Canadian Military Gazette, Vol. 9, no. 16 (15 August, 1894), p. 1.