Background
He was born James Gordon Gibson at Gold Bottom Creek near Dawson City, Yukon.
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Gordon Gibson
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He represented Lillooet from 1953 to 1956 and North Vancouver from 1960 to 1966 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Liberal. Gibson was a millionaire timber baron whose nickname was "Bulletin of the Woods" due to his loud lumberjack"s voice. He was dismissed as a rough, hard-drinking logger who had made it rich, but was loved by many small loggers as being one of the few people to be interested in them over the interests of big business.
His father was working a small mining claim while his mother was the camp cook.
During the Depression, they were active around Vancouver Island, Vancouver and Seattle. The Gibson brothers built a $4,000,000 sawmill business starting at Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
They had more than 40 boats working the Inside Passage including the five masted 2,000 ton bald headed schooner, the Malahat, and the five-masted schooner K.V. Kruse. The Gibson family also owned a radio station in North Vancouver and a whaling station at Coal Harbour.
At his resort, Gibson had a totem pole which he had arranged to fly out from Nootka Sound to Maui.
At its base was an inscription written in concrete that claimed that it was the first totem pole to fly the Pacific. He was one of four MLAs who managed to get elected in the June 9, 1953 election when the Liberals received 23% of the vote. Gordon Gibson died of lung cancer in 1986.
Membership
In 1967, Gordon Gibson was appointed a member of the Northwest Territories Council.
