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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
SPRING 1974
DR. E3ALDUR KRISTJANSON NAMED ASSOCIATE
DEPUTY MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE
The Manitoba government has an-
nounced the appointment of Dr. Bald-
ur Kristjanson as the Associate Deputy
Minister of Agriculture.
Dr. Kristjanson, who as Associate
Deputy Minister of Agriculture, will
serve as chief policy advisor to the
minister and will be responsible for
planning for both agriculture and
rural development.
The premier said the appointment
would strengthen both the planning
functions and programs of the depart-
ment. He said Dr. Kristjanson’s duties
would enable the new deputy, Willem
P. “Bill” Janssen, to deal with admin-
istrative and program matters, as well
as to help provide policy and planning
advice.
Premier Schreyer said the new ap-
pointee carries impressive credentials
in his fields.
Gimli-born Dr. Kristjanson, at one
time acting assistant deputy minister
of the Federal Department of Agri-
culure, has been serving in Manitoba
in two capacities, as chairman of the
Economic Development Advisory
Board and chaiman of the Manitoba
Milk Board. He is the son of the late
Hannes Kristjanson and Mrs. Elin
Thordis Kristjanson.
He has specialized in agricultural
economics and holds a bachelor’s de-
gree from the University of Manitoba
(1939), a master’s from Virginia Poly-
technic Institute (1941) and a doctor’s
from the University of Wisconsin
(1949). He had served as an instructor
at the University of Saskatchewan
(1944-45) and as a professor at North
Dakota State University (1947-55) be-
for going to Ottawa for three years
(1955-58), becoming head of the Can-
ada Department of Agriculture’s co-
Dr. Baldur Kristjanson
operative and credit unions branch.
He spent two years as an economic
advisor to the Government of Iran as
he agricultural member of a Harvard
University team, returning to Ottawa
as secretary of the Resources for To-
morrow Conference, and later as acting
assistant deputy minister.
In 1963 he came to Manitoba as
executive director of the Manitoba
Economic Consultative Board, through
the efforts of the Progressive Conserv-
ative government. Fie was named
deputy minister of the Manitoba
Development Authority >in 1967 and ec-
conomic advisor to the premier the fol-
lowing year. After .serving in Tanzania
for a year, he returned to Manitoba
in 1969 as economic advisor, and later
assumed additional duties as chairman
of the Milk Control Board. Dr. Kris-
tjanson also is on the board of directors
of three regional development corpor-
ations, and i.s a member of the Can-
adian Committee for Man and the Bio-
sphere Program of ENESCO.