Calvin Avigak Pedersen is a

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politician, who was elected to the

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in July 2020. Representing the electoral district of

Kugluktuk Kugluktuk (, ; Inuktitut syllabics: ; ), formerly known as Coppermine until 1 January 1996, is a hamlet located at the mouth of the Coppermine River in the Kitikmeot Region of Nunavut, Canada, on Coronation Gulf, southwest of Victoria Islan ...

, he was directly

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to office as the only candidate to register by the nomination deadline following the resignation of his predecessor

Mila Adjukak Kamingoak Mila Adjukak Kamingoak is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Kugluktuk in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut as of October 30, 2017. Kamingoak was the only candidate to register in her district by the close on Sept ...

. He is the grandson of former MLA and Kugluktuk mayor

Red Pedersen Asger Rye "Red" Pedersen (sometimes Asgar Rye Pederson, born 1935, Denmark) is a former territorial-level Canadian politician. In 1953, he got a job in the Canadian Arctic with the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) at Cambridge Bay, Nunavut (then th ...

. His grandmother,

Lena Pedersen Lena (Elizabeth Magdalena) Pedersen or Lena Pederson (born 1940, Greenland) is a politician and social worker from Nunavut, Canada. In 1959, she moved from Greenland to the Northwest Territories and lived in Coppermine (Kugluktuk), Pangnirtung an ...

was the first woman elected to the

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in the Northwest Territories 1970 election.Another generation of the Pedersen family enters the legislative assembly
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