TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - June 21, 2017) - Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: WDO) (the "Company") announces the results of the Company's annual and special meeting of shareholders (the "Meeting") held earlier today.

A total of 86,641,252 common shares were represented at the Meeting, representing 65.32% of the total issued and outstanding common shares of the Company.

All matters presented for shareholder approval at the Meeting were approved, as follows:

The following seven individuals were elected as directors of the Company, until the next annual meeting of shareholders, as set out in the table below:

Please refer to the Company's Report of Voting Results filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com for further details on the above matters.

ABOUT WESDOME
Wesdome Gold Mines is in its 30^th year of continuous gold mining operations in Canada. The Company is 100% Canadian focused with a pipeline of projects in various stages of development. The Eagle River Complex in Wawa, Ontario is currently producing gold from two mines, the Eagle River Underground Mine and the Mishi Open pit, from a central mill. Wesdome is actively exploring its brownfields asset, the Kiena Complex in Val d'Or, Quebec. The Kiena Complex is a fully permitted former mine with a 930 metre shaft and 2,000 tonne per day mill. The Company has further upside at its Moss Lake gold deposit, located 100 kilometres west of Thunder Bay, Ontario, which is being explored and evaluated to be developed in the appropriate gold price environment. The Company has approximately 133 million shares issued and outstanding and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "WDO."

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