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William Mulock

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Will probably go down to posterity as 'The man who did.'
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Toronto Telegram, after his retirement from politics in 1905, reported in Morgan, Henry James, ed (1912). The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography of Living Characters. Toronto: William Briggs. pp. 833-834. 

 
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