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Encyclopedia > Commissioner of the Yukon

This is a list of Yukon Commissioners from 1897 to the present.

Commissioner Term
James Morrow Walsh 1897-1898
William Ogilvie 1898-1901
James Hamilton Ross 1901-1902
Zachary Taylor Wood 1902-1903 (acting)
Frederick Tennyson Congdon 1903-1904
William Wallace Burns McInnes 1905-1906
Alexander Henderson 1907-1911
George Black 1912-1915
George Norris Williams 1915-1916 (acting)

Office of Commissioner and Administrator were abolished in 1918. Office replaced by the Gold Commissioner who was responsible to the federal Minister of the Interior.

Gold Commissioner Term
George P. MacKenzie 1918-1924
Percy Reid 1925-1927
George Ian MacLean 1928-1932

The position of Gold Commissioner and Comptroller were combined in 1932 with the Comptroller being the title for the chief executive. Spelling was changed to Controller in 1936.

Controller Term
George A. Jeckell 1932-1946
John Edward Gibbon 1947-1948

In 1948, the title of chief executive once again became Commissioner. Beginning in 1978, Yukon had party government with a Government Leader (later Premier) and powers being devolved from the Commissioner to the government.


See also: List of Yukon premiers

Commissioner Term
John Edward Gibbon 1948-1950
Andrew Harold Gibson 1950-1951
Frederick Fraser 1951-1952
Wilfred George Brown 1952-1955
Frederick Howard Collins 1955-1962
Gordon Robertson Cameron 1962-1966
James Smith 1966-1976
Arthur MacDonald Pearson 1976-1978
Frank Fingland 1978-1979 (interim)
Ione Jean Christensen 1979
Douglas Leslie Dewey Bell 1979-1986
John Kenneth McKinnon 1986-1995
Judy Gingell 1995-2000
Jack Cable 2000-present
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Cable, Ivan John (332 words)
Cable, Ivan John (Jack), lawyer, politician, Commissioner of the YUKON (b at Hamilton, Ont, 17 Aug 1934).
In 1991 he served as president of the Yukon Energy Corporation, the public enterprise that is owned by the Yukon Government and that generates and distributes the bulk of the electrical energy used in the territory.
In 2000 Cable was appointed 27th commissioner of the Yukon, serving from 1 October 2000 to 1 December 2005 when he was succeeded by Geraldine VAN BIBBER.
Yukon - definition of Yukon in Encyclopedia (1275 words)
Yukon or The Yukon is one of Canada's northern territories, in the country's extreme northwest.
The two main Yukon rivers flowing into the Mackenzie in the Northwest Territories are the Liard River in the southeast and the Peel River and its tributaries in the northeast.
The territory's head of state is a federally appointed Commissioner, a role roughly equivalent to that of a provincial lieutenant governor.
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