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href="/area/2747553f-b44d-44c4-a7c3-b67412b6f10b"><bdi>Ontario</bdi></a>, <span class="flag flag-CA"><a href="/area/71bbafaa-e825-3e15-8ca9-017dcad1748b"><bdi>Canada</bdi></a></span></dd><dt>Area:</dt><dd class="area"><span class="flag flag-CA"><a href="/area/71bbafaa-e825-3e15-8ca9-017dcad1748b"><bdi>Canada</bdi></a></span></dd></dl><h2 class="rating">Rating</h2><p><span class="inline-rating"><span class="star-rating" tabindex="-1"></span></span></p><div id="sidebar-tags"><h2>Tags</h2><h3>Genres</h3><div class="genre-list"><p>(none)</p></div><h3>Other tags</h3><div id="sidebar-tag-list"><p>(none)</p></div><p><a href="/artist/23c79644-d7a8-4f91-b393-1f0623ac37fc/tags" title="Davies, William Robertson (novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor)"><bdi>See all tags</bdi></a></p></div><h2 class="external-links">External links</h2><ul class="external_links"><li class="wikipedia-favicon"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson_Davies">en: Robertson Davies</a></li><li 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