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- ↑ David Donnell's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
- 1 2 3 Meyer, Bruce (1997). Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature . pp. 298–299. ISBN 9780195411676.
- ↑ "Who's". www.poets.ca. Archived from the original on 2001-01-10.
