Commissioner of Yukon
# Commissioner Term start Term end
1 John Edward Gibben July 13 , 1948 August 15 , 1950
2 Andrew Harold Gibson August 15 , 1950 October 15 , 1951
3 Frederick Fraser October 15 , 1951 November 5 , 1952
4 Wilfred George Brown November 5 , 1952 June 8 , 1955
5 Frederick Howard Collins June 8 , 1955 May 1 , 1962
6 Gordon Robertson Cameron May 1 , 1962 November 7 , 1966
7 James Smith November 7 , 1966 July 1 , 1976
8 Arthur MacDonald Pearson July 1 , 1976 November 1 , 1978
9 Frank Fingland November 1 , 1978 January 20 , 1979
10 Ione Christensen January 20 , 1979 October 9 , 1979
11 Douglas Bell October 9 , 1979 March 27 , 1986
12 Ken McKinnon March 27 , 1986 June 12 , 1995
13 Judy Gingell June 12 , 1995 October 1 , 2000
14 Jack Cable October 1 , 2000 December 1 , 2005
15 Geraldine Van Bibber December 1 , 2005 December 1 , 2010
16 Doug Phillips December 1 , 2010 January 31 , 2018
17 Angélique Bernard March 12 , 2018 Incumbent
List of commissioners -- Commissioners ( 1948–present )
In 1948 , the title of chief executive once again became Commissioner . By the 1960s , the Commissioner had formed an executive committee that included some members of the elected Territorial Council , in essence a cabinet . ( By the mid 1970s , the Territorial Council was referring to itself as a Legislative Assembly , and its members MLAs rather than Councillors . ) Beginning in 1978 , Yukon had party government with a Government Leader . In October 1979 , federal minister Jake Epp ( Indian Affairs and Northern Development ) issued a letter , often known as the Epp letter , instructing the Commissioner to assume a role similar to that of a provincial Lieutenant-Governor , and devolving leadership of the day-to-day government to the majority leader of the legislative assembly ( territorial council ) , to whom the Epp letter granted the authority to use the title Premier . At that time , the government leader added a fifth elected member to the committee , which became an executive council . Subsequent federal ministers did not revoke this authority and instruction , which was eventually codified in amendments to the Yukon Act , along with redesignation of the legislative assembly from territorial council . The process , particularly since 1979 , has devolved powers from the federal government to the territorial government , bringing authority which is normally reserved by the Articles of Confederation for provinces to the territory . See also : List of premiers of Yukon
The Commissioner of Yukon () is the representative of the Government of Canada in the Canadian federal territory of Yukon. The commissioner is appointed by the federal government and, in contrast to the Governor General of Canada or the Lieutenant Governors of the Canadian provinces, is not a viceroy and therefore not a direct representative of the Canadian monarch in the territory eo ipso.