Douglas Bell | |
Birth Date: | 15 June 1926 |
Birth Place: | Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Death Place: | Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada |
Office: | Commissioner of the Yukon |
Term Start: | October 9, 1979 |
Term End: | March 27, 1986 |
Predecessor: | Ione Christensen |
Successor: | John Kenneth McKinnon |
Primeminister: | Joe Clark Pierre Trudeau John Turner Brian Mulroney |
Premier: | Chris Pearson Willard Phelps Tony Penikett |
Douglas Leslie Dewey Bell, (June 15, 1926 – April 18, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the commissioner of Yukon.[1] [2] He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1989[3] and a member of the Order of Yukon in 2019.[4] [5] Bell died at the age of 94 in 2021 after a period of declining health.[6]