Former Yukon commissioner and cabinet minister John Kenneth (Ken) McKinnon has died. He was appointed commissioner of Yukon in 1986 and held the post for nine years, becoming one of Yukon's longest-serving commissioners. A gathering of Yukon commissioners, in 2013: then-commissioner Doug Phillips, with former commissioners Geraldine Van Bibber, Jack Cable and McKinnon. So you'd hear Ken laughing before you saw him, and you knew who it was." After retiring as commissioner, McKinnon went on to serve as chancellor of Yukon College and chair of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board.

Source: CBC News March 14, 2019 22:46 UTC