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- ↑ "True Grid: Riders' Robson has done it all, from selling popcorn to running team". Google News Archive Search. Ottawa Citizen. January 13, 1987.
- ↑ "Twelve Manitobans to Receive Order of Manitoba July 13". July 12, 2017.
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