Gordon Gibson, Sr.
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Gordon Gibson, Sr. was a politician in British Columbia, Canada. He was a prominent business leader, and a BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) in the 1950s. He was one of four MLAs that managed to get elected in the June 9, 1953 election when the Liberals received 23.36% of the vote. In the Lillooet riding, Gibson received 27.63% on the first count (in a preferential ballot) but on the third and final count edged out CCF rival Gordon Dowding with 51.93%.
Gibson was a millionaire timber baron whose nickname was "Bull of the Woods". He was dimissed at a rough, hard-drinking logger who had made it rich, but was loved by many small loggers as being one of the only people to be interested in them over the interests of big business.
In the 1920s, he and his brothers ran the Gibson Lumber and Shingle Company.
His son, Gordon Gibson, Jr. led the provincial Liberals in the 1970s.
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