Jan Tennant

Jan Tennant (born January 5, 1937) is a Canadian television journalist, news anchor, and announcer.

Teaching She graduated with a degree in Physical Education and Health and began teaching at Queen Elizabeth Junior High in Port Credit, Ontario (1960), Switzerland (1961–62), then obtained a Type A Certificate in Physical and Health Education, and Type B in English and French at the Ontario College of Education (1962–63) before resuming teaching at Castle Frank High School in Toronto until 1965.

Tennant then moved to CBC Stereo where she hosted Listen to the Music, a 90-minute classical music programme, for two years. Tennant also narrated various independent documentaries in the 1980s and 1990s including Footholds (1984) Handle on Health (1987), and Return of the Swift Fox and For Richer, For Poorer (1988), and A Nurse’s Opinion (1991). In 1989, she moved to West Vancouver and worked on a freelance basis. She hosted and narrated The Time of Your Life, from 1991 to 1996. The series profiled inspiring senior citizens and aired on Global Television, Vision TV and the W Network and was carried by stations around the world. Her last professional job was narrating Burns Bog - A Road Runs Through It, a National Film Board documentary about an ecosystem south of Vancouver. She retired from broadcasting in 1998.

Tennant is married to George Robertson, a former producer of CBC Television's The Fifth Estate.