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- ↑ "Award-winning actor who loved his work Ed McNamara is dead". Montreal Gazette . October 15, 1986. p. 60. Retrieved January 4, 2019– via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Maria Topalovich, And the Genie Goes To...: Celebrating 50 Years of the Canadian Film Awards. Stoddart Publishing, 2000. ISBN 0-7737-3238-1.
- ↑ "Genie movies something to celebrate". Toronto Star , March 16, 1986.
