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- ↑ "Claudia Lapp". vehicule2.
- ↑ "Claudia Lapp Spotlighted" (PDF). www.docs.wixstatic.com. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
- ↑ Jason Camlot and Todd Swift (eds). The Vehicule Poets. http://www.ottawater.com/poetics/poetics07/07vehiclegangprint.html
- ↑ Heather Hill. "Book fest focuses on Quebec writers." The Gazette. April 15, 1986. p. 22.
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