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- ↑ "Who Has Seen the Wind". cfe.tiff.net. Canadian Film Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19 March 2023.
- 1 2 "Allan King, 79: Pioneer filmmaker directed Warrendale". Toronto Star , June 16, 2009.
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- ↑ Clandfield, David (1987). Canadian Film. Toronto: Oxford University Press. p. 52. ISBN 0-19-540581-1.
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