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- ↑ 58th Annual Meeting, Institute of Lake Superior Geology, Thunder Bay, Ontario, May16-20 2021, Part 2 - Field Trip Guidebook Archived 2022-01-22 at the Wayback Machine , Institute of Lake Superior Geology
- ↑ Stadfeld, Bruce (1993). "Aboriginal Resource Use in Canada: Historical and Legal Aspects, Edited by Kerry Abel and Jean Friesen, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1991, vii + 343 pp". Canadian Journal of Law and Society. 8 (1): 263–267. doi:10.1017/s0829320100003069. ISSN 0829-3201. S2CID 147038400. Archived from the original on 2023-07-03. Retrieved 2023-07-02.