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- ↑ Profile of Willard Phelps at Opportunities North 2008
- ↑ "Territory File - Premiers - Yukon". Parliament of Canada. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
- ↑ "United Citizens Party of Yukon loses leader". CBC News. May 9, 2011.
