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- ↑ "Fred Berger, pioneering NDPer, dies at 76". Yukon News, March 2, 2009.
- ↑ Hayden, J. (1999). Yukon's women of power: political pioneers in a northern Canadian colony. Windwalker Press. ISBN 9780968626603 . Retrieved 2015-04-16.
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