Primary sources:
1981 Census of Canada. Ethnicity. Place of Birth. Citizenship. Income, Statistic Canada, [Ottawa 1983]. https://ia600500.us.archive.org/26/items/198193F0036XPE1983eng/198193F0036XPE1983eng.pdf [Accessed 24.10.2017].
Canadian Polish Congers in Toronto (CPC Toronto archive), collection not catalogued. 
- Chronicle of Cooperation. An Account of the Joint Eff orts of the Canada Employment and Immigration Commission and the Canadian Polish Congress to Assist Polish Refugees, [Toronto, June 1984, printed material].
- Rok 40-lecia Kongresu Polonii Kanadyjskiej [duplicated typescript, n. a., Toronto 1984].
Jadwiga Gaszyńska’s private collection, Toronto, medical courses documentation.
Kronika Emigracyjna – Ilość ksiąg 3 (lata 1980–1992), K. Grzywalska, (ed.) – duplicated material, [Mississauga, n. d.]
Nina Skoczyńska’s privat collection,Toronto.
Interviews:
Interview with L.W., Toronto 16.08. 2016.
Interview with sister Alicja Kwiecień, Toronto 14.08. 2017.
Interview with T. E., Toronto, 30.07. 2016.
Interview with X.X., Gdynia, 17.09. 2017.
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A Hundred Years of Immigration to Canada 1900–1999 (Part 2), http://ccrweb.ca/en/hundredyears-immigration-canada-part-2. 
Cieplik A.(1991), Ontario Welcome House, Dowtown Toronto (Transcript) in: Kott T., Celiński M., Trojanowska T. (ed.), Polonia 2000: Strategies for Participation in Canadian Life, [Toronto], pp. 86 – 87.
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Geddes J. (2016), Lloyd Axwotrhy: A Politician Who Thinks Globally, and Act Locally, “Maclean’s”, February 23, http://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/lloyd-axworthy-a-politician-who-thinks-globally-and-acts-locally/.
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Informator dla nowo przybyłych. Usługi w Ontario / Newcomers Guide to Services in Ontario (Polish), Tinglin W. ed., (1981), [Toronto]: Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture.
Kogler R. (1985), The Poles in Canada: Present and Future, in: Heydenkorn B. (ed.), A Community in Transition. The Polish Group in Canada, Toronto: Canadian Polish Research Institute, pp. 257–281.
Krywułt-Albańska M. (2015), Imigranci polscy w Kanadzie. Socjologiczna analiz procesów adaptacji, Kraków: Impuls.
Lloyd Axworthy in: Historica Canada, http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/lloydaxworthy/. 
Matas, D. Self Exile Class, “Canada’s Journal on Refugee”, Vol. 9, No.4 (May 1990), pp. 23–28.
Rajski, A. (2008) 100 lat Polonii w Windsor. 1908–2008, Windsor: Warkeville Publishing.
Reczyńska A. (2001), Polska Diaspora w Kanadzie, in: Walaszek A. (ed.), Polska Diaspora, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie 2001, pp. 30–50.
Zybała S., Drugie ćwierćwiecze 1973–1997, in: Reduta Ottawska, http://www.spkottawa.ca/polski/reduta/reduta_9.html