Dr. Janice MacKinnon, Ph.D

Doctor of Philosophy

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, FRSC

Royal Society of Canada

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 (born January 30, 1947) is a Canadian

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 historian and former Minister of Finance

Finance minister

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 for the Province of Saskatchewan

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 under NDP Premier Roy Romanow

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. She is currently a professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan

University of Saskatchewan

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Born Janice Potter in Kitchener, Ontario

Kitchener, Ontario

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, she received an honours BA

Bachelor of Arts

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 from the University of Western Ontario

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 in 1969 where she attended Huron University College

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 and an MA

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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 and Ph.D

Doctor of Philosophy

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 from Queen's University

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From 1991 to 2003, she was a Saskatchewan MLA

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. In addition to being Minister of Finance, she also held the following ministerial positions at various times: Minister of Social Services, Minister of Economic and Co-operative Development, Minister Responsible for Trade, Research and Investment and Government House Leader.

She is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Research on Public Policy

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. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Canada West Foundation.

In 2005, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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On January 25, 2008, Janice MacKinnon was named Chair of the Board of Investment Saskatchewan - a Saskatchewan Crown Corporation managing investment capital and financing.

She is married to Peter MacKinnon

Peter MacKinnon

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, the current President of the University of Saskatchewan. They have two children, Alan and William.

Selected bibliography

• The Liberty We Seek: Loyalist Ideology in Colonial New York and Massachusetts (ISBN 0674530268)
• While the Women Only Wept: Loyalist Refugee Women (ISBN 0773513175)
• Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs and Canada's Future (ISBN 0773527494)