Jan Tennant (born January 5, 1937) is a Canadian television journalist, news anchor, and announcer.
She left the CBC in 1982 worked as an anchor for Global Television Network, including two years co-anchoring the supper hour newscast with Peter Trueman, until Trueman moved to Ottawa to host a half-hour national newscast that followed Tenant anchoring a half-hour from Toronto.
Tennant also narrated various independent documentaries in the 1980s and 1990s including Footholds (1984) Handle on Health (1987), and Return of the Swift Fox and For Richer, For Poorer (1988), and A Nurse’s Opinion (1991).
The series profiled inspiring senior citizens[3] and aired on Global Television, Vision TV and the W Network and was carried by stations around the world.
Her last professional job was narrating Burns Bog - A Road Runs Through It, a National Film Board documentary about an ecosystem south of Vancouver.