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- ↑ "Recipients - Order of Newfoundland and Labrador".
- ↑ Hoy, 1992, pp. 5-13
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- ↑ Hoy, 1992
- ↑ CBA Resolution 77-01-A: Constitution of Canada - Special Committee; reproduced in Canadian Bar Association: Towards a new Canada - Committee on the Constitution, p. xv.
- ↑ Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2007: Grand Falls-Windsor/Green Bay South. cbc.ca.
- ↑ Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2007: Bay of Islands. cbc.ca.
