Histories
- Father Jimmy Tompkins "Knowledge for the People--a Call to St. Francis Xavier College" 1921
- Dr. James Cameron "For the People: A History of St Francis Xavier University". Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.
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