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- ↑ Particulars of the award and a history of award recipients may be found here
- ↑ Complete citation and photo may be found here
- ↑ Winner of the 1996 Gabrielle Roy Prize, sponsored by the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures; see Awards-1996 Archived 2007-08-14 at the Wayback Machine McGill-Queen's University Press; www.mqup.mcgill.ca.
- ↑ "Guernica Editions, Essential Poets Series". Archived from the original on 2008-09-05. Retrieved 2008-07-30.
- ↑ News Release: Appointments to the Order of Canada
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