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- ↑ Murray (ed.), Muskoka and Haliburton, 100-101
- ↑ "Biography – MUSQUAKIE – Volume IX (1861-1870) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
- ↑ "Biography – MUSQUAKIE – Volume IX (1861-1870) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography".
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