Iain MacKay

Career

MacKay, a chartered accountant, led the Liberal Party into the 1978 election, the territory"s first-ever partisan legislative election, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Yukon as Modern Language Association for Whitehorse Riverdale South. He resigned as Modern Language Association and party leader in 1980, and was succeeded in both roles by Ron Veale.

Achievements

• Even though his party lost the election overall, he was ironically the only one of the three party leaders to win his own seat, as both Hilda Watson of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party and Fred Berger of the Yukon New Democratic Party were defeated in their own districts.

Membership

MacKay subsequently moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where he continued to work as an accountant, was active in the British Columbia Liberal Party, and served as a board member of various charitable foundations.