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- ↑ "First Pan American Games in Canada in 1967: Spotlight on Canadian Athletes". Library and Archives Canada . Retrieved 19 March 2016.
- ↑ Grasso, John; Mallon, Bill; Heijmans, Jeroen (14 May 2015). "Appendix VII". Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement (5 ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. p. 685. ISBN 9781442248601.
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