Margaret "Meg" Sutherland McCall was a

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politician, who represented the

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of Klondike in the

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from 1978 to 1982. She was a member of the

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. She defeated

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leader Fred Berger and independent candidate

Eleanor Millard Eleanor Millard (born March 4, 1942) is a Canadian writer and former politician.1978 territorial election."Fred Berger, pioneering NDPer, dies at 76"
''Yukon News'', March 2, 2009. She died of cancer in 1997.

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