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- ↑ Editor (2022-01-12). "Terril Calder". Northernstars.ca. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
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- ↑ Brian D. Johnson, "Quebec and Croneberg (sic) lead Genies". Maclean's , January 17, 2012.
- ↑ Salma Monani, "The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder's The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces". Studies in American Indian Literatures , Vol. 29, no. 4 (2017): pp. 1-28.
- ↑ Staff, Dance Ontario (2016-04-19). "Ontario Arts Foundation Announces The Winners of the K.M. Hunter Artist Awards". Dance Ontario. Retrieved 2024-03-06.
