Kevin Barr is a Canadian politician, who served in the Yukon Legislative Assembly from 2011 to 2016.
[1] He represented the electoral district of Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes as a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party caucus.
In December 2015, he also presented a petition to establish National Aboriginal Day as a new statutory holiday in the territory.
[3] Barr announced his intent to seek re-election in Mount Lorne-Southern Lakes in the 2016 Yukon election, but was defeated narrowly in the campaign by now-Yukon Liberal John Streicker, who had placed ahead of Barr in the 2011 federal election.
Prior to his term in the legislature, Barr was a community worker in Whitehorse and Carcross,[4] and a musician with the band Undertakin' Daddies (which was a nominee for the Juno Award for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year – Group).