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- ↑ "Never a Backward Step". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ↑ Robert Fulford, "Donald Brittain: Filmmaker needed an outsider's touch". The Globe and Mail , December 9, 1992.
- ↑ "Canadian Film Awards 1949-1979". Northern Stars.
- ↑ "Never a Backward Step". cfe.tiff.net. Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ↑ "Never a Backward Step". onf-nfb.gc.ca. National Film Board of Canada. 11 October 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2023.