Fingland, Frank Boyd

He was living in Clinton ON at the time of his recruitment into the navy.

He graduated in 1950 from the University of Toronto.

He was appointed as the Assistant Commissioner of the Yukon Territory.

He was appointed as the Interim Commissioner of the Yukon Territory, November 1, 1978 - January 19, 1979.

He was styled as The Honorable Frank B. Fingland at that time.

He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCN(R). (CFR) He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant RCN(R) (With seniority dated 28/11/1950). (He was released.)

He subsequently took political science and economics at University of Toronto and the London School of Economics, London, England. During these years he also was an officer in the Canadian Naval Reserve (UNTD) and worked with Topography Survey in Northern BC and Ogilvie mountains and Hyland River Country of the Yukon.

He began working for Northern Affairs and the National Resources Ministry in 1955 in Ottawa, transferring several times between Ottawa and the offices of the Commissioner of the Yukon in Whitehorse. While Commissioner, he was instrumental on behalf of the federal minister of Northern Affairs (Hugh Faulkner) in bringing elected members of the legislature into positions of the executive responsible government.