Gordon Gibson, Sr. was a prominent business leader and a BC Liberal 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.

Gibson was a millionaire timber baron whose nickname was "Bull of the Woods". He was dimissed at a rough, hard drinking logger that 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. They also acquired one of the first FMLs.

His son, Gordon Gibson, Jr. led the provincial Liberals in the 1970s.