Ken McKinnon (politician)

John Kenneth McKinnon (April 20, 1936 – March 13, 2019) was a Canadian politician and the commissioner of Yukon from 1986 to 1995.

[1][2] The son of Alex McKinnon and Catherine Luce, he was educated in Norwood, at St. Paul's College and at the University of Manitoba.

He was then Yukon Administrator of the Northern Pipeline Agency from 1979 to 1984 and appointed Commissioner March 27, 1986 then retired in June 1995.

After his retirement, he ran in the 1997 Canadian federal election as Progressive Conservative, coming in fourth in the Yukon riding.

In 2007, he was named chair of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-Economic Assessment Board.