Gibson was born at Gold Bottom Creek 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. Gibson ended up with a 132-foot pleasure boat called the
Norsal which he renamed the
Maui Lu (after his first wife, Louise) and sailed it to his resort on
Maui. 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. Gordon took his grandson Mark on the voyage from Vancouver to Maui to give him an experience where the eleven day cruise was full of excitement and adventure. Pete Lovick and Alistair Mellander came along who looked after the engines that almost failed and looked after the course to get the Maui Lui to Hawaii. Everyone learned from Gordon's stories from the Roberts Summers issue and the love Gordon had for British Columbia, He was a great Canadian and loved his country. ==Political career==