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The North’s first Indigenous MP, Wally Firth, has died

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Then-Northwest Territories MP Wally Firth, left, and then-NDP leader David Lewis, in an undated photograph. Firth died on March 2, aged 89.Photograph courtesy of Jacqulyn McIntyre

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

March 6, 2024

Walter “Wally” Firth, the first Indigenous MP from the North, died on March 2 in Victoria, B.C., aged 89.

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