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- 1 2 "Youth sentenced to six months for derailing train". CBC.ca. 2002-11-06. Retrieved 2009-04-19.
- ↑ "Teen faces victims of N.S. train wreck". CBC.ca. 2002-08-30. Retrieved 2009-04-19.