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- ↑ "Les Raquetteurs". Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Film Reference Library. Archived from the original on 12 October 2007. Retrieved 13 January 2010.
- ↑ Marshall, Bill (2000-10-10). Quebec National Cinema . McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 22. ISBN 0-7735-2116-X.
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- ↑ Evans, Gary (Sep 30, 1991). In the National Interest: A Chronicle of the National Film Board of Canada from 1949 to 1989 . University of Toronto Press. pp. 73. ISBN 0-8020-6833-2.
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- ↑ Ellis, Jack C.; Betsy A. McLane (2005). A new history of documentary film. New York: Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 211. ISBN 0-8264-1751-5.
