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Bibliography notation:

van den Berk, Bart, The History of Leechtown – Part I, The VIEE and the Discovery of Gold on the Sooke and Leech Rivers, Sooke: VandenBerk-Books, 8 July 2014; 300 pages.

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van den Berk, Bart, Leechtown History, accesses dd-mm-yyyy, http://www.leechtownhistory.ca/