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- 1 2 "Lena (Elizabeth Magdalena) Pedersen First woman elected to the Northwest Territories Council". Library and Archives Canada. April 12, 2005. Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-08.
- ↑ Lena Pederson Boarding Home Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Okpik, Abraham (2005-09-29). "The Beginning of Aboriginal Political Organizations". We Call It Survival (PDF). Vol. Life Stories of Northern Leaders Series Volume One. Nunavut Arctic College. pp. 317, 326. ISBN 1-896-204-71-6 . Retrieved 2020-07-27.
...and Leena Pedersen,5 who was an Inuk member of the Legislative Assembly from Coppermine....5. Originally from Greenland, she married Red Pedersen from Cam-bridge Bay.
- ↑ Derek Neary, "New MLAs acclaimed in Baker Lake, Kugluktuk; race set for Pangnirtung mayor". Nunavut News , July 24, 2020.
- ↑ Marybelle Mitchell (1996). Talking Chiefs to a Native Corporate Elite The Birth of Class and Nationalism Among Canadian Inuit (.pdf). McGill-Queen's Press -MQUP. pp. 241–242. ISBN 9780773513747 . Retrieved 2007-11-12.
