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- 1 2 3 4 Europa Publications (2004). International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. Taylor & Francis. pp. 447–48. ISBN 185743269X.
- 1 2 "Mary Alice Downie". Writers' Union of Canada.
- ↑ Holmes, Gillian (1999). Who's Who of Canadian Women, 1999-2000. University of Toronto Press. pp. 279–80. ISBN 0920966551.
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