Biography
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- --. St. John's Advertiser and Fishermen's Guide: A Racy Little Song and Joke Book. 1894.
- Hiscock, Philip. "Burke, John." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Vol. XV, 1921-1930. University of Toronto / Université Laval, 2000.
- John White's Collection of the Songs of Johnny Burke. Ed. William J. Kirwin. St. John's, Newfoundland: Harry Cuff, 1982.
- St. Pierre, Paul Matthew. "De-Burking Johnny Burke, an Excluded Canadian Troubadour." Canadian Poetry 36 (Spring/Summer 1995).
