Career
Born in Condor, Alberta, he was a journalist for the Vancouver News Herald and a columnist with The Vancouver Sun before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 federal election for the British Columbia riding of New Westminster. Although it didn"t pass, he would re-introduce the same legislation in every parliamentary session between 1968 and 1974. In 1983, an Access to Information Acting would finally be passed.
Mather was also one of the first parliamentarians to call for restrictions on the sale of cigarettes.
In 1969, he called for a ban on all cigarette advertising. He was the co-author of the 1958 book, New Westminster, The Royal City.
They had two daughters: Mary and Jane. He died of a heart attack during a vacation in Nerja in 1982.