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- ↑ Steven Smyth, The Yukon's Constitutional Foundations: Volume One, The Yukon Chronology (1897-1999). Clairedge Press, 1999.
- ↑ "Yukon Election Result: H. C. Macaulay, T. W. O'Brien and Richard Gillespie Successful in Contested Districts — Joe Clarke Goes Down to Defeat". Whitehorse Star , April 13, 1905.
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