Margaret Commodore
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Margaret Muriel Commodore (or Margaret Joe; born 1932) is a Canadian politician. She represented the electoral district of Whitehorse North Centre in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 1992, and Whitehorse Centre from 1992 to 1996. She was a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party.
Under the Tony Penikett governments, she was Minister of Health and Human Resources from 1986 to 1989 and the first Aboriginal Minister of Justice in Canada from 1989 to 1992. She was also the first-ever First Nations woman to ever be named to a cabinet in Canada in 1985.[1][2]
Commodore is a member of the Sto:lo Nation. In 2013 she testified regarding her abuse at the hands of the residential school system at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.[3]
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External links
- Margaret Commodore, profile excerpted from Joyce Hayden's book Yukon's Women of Power (archive copy)
- Recording of Commodore from The Legislature Speaks
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- Living people
- 20th-century First Nations people
- First Nations women in politics
- People from Chilliwack
- Politicians from Whitehorse
- Sto:lo people
- Women MLAs in Yukon
- 1932 births
- Yukon New Democratic Party MLAs
- 20th-century Canadian women politicians
- 20th-century members of the Yukon Legislative Assembly