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- ↑ Toronto MultiCultural Calendar
- ↑ The Holocaust, Israel, and Canadian Protestant Churches, McGill-Queen's University Press
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- ↑ "Alan T. Davies fonds". University of Toronto archives.
- ↑ Davies, Alan (2010). The Crucified Nation: A Motif in Modern Nationalism. p. 126. ISBN 978-1845194468.
- ↑ "How Silent Were the Churches?". Wilfrid Laurier University Press. Archived from the original on 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-07-19.
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