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- 1 2 "Nominated for East Wellington: Reeve Richardson of Elora the Liberal Candidate". The Globe and Mail , March 7, 1911.
- ↑ "Work was abandoned on new Elora factory in 1930". Wellington Advertiser, Vol. 47, No. 5.
- ↑ "County firefighters prevented several conflagrations in summer of 1929". Wellington Advertiser, Vol. 47, No. 16.