Fonds CR-144 - Gibson family fonds

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Gibson family fonds

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CA DMA CR-144

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  • [ca. 1910] - 1981 (Creation)
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    Gibson (family)
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    primarily 1929-1941

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1 cm of textual records
38 photographs
1 sound recording

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([ca. 1910] - 1981, primarily 1929-1941)

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William Arthur Gibson (1887-1947) was born in Dalton, England, coming to Canada in 1911 and to Delta in 1925. He became well known as a farmer and seed grower, winning awards for his peas and wheat. William Gibson married his wife Adelaide (Ada) Wilson in 1922. They had five children: Gordon, Douglas, Ronald, Margaret and Dorothy.

William and Ada's son, William Gordon Gibson (Gordon), was born in Vancouver in 1924, and grew up in Ladner, attending Delta Central School and King George V High School. Gordon's father William entered, under his son's name, wheat seed grown in Ladner to the International Grain and Hay Show in Chicago in 1937. The hard spring wheat won an international award, crowning Gordon, then 13 years old, as the Wheat King of the world. Gordon worked at RCAF Station Boundary Bay (Boundary Bay Airport) 1940-41, then joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942. After the war Gordon settled in Vancouver and worked as an engineer for B.C. Hydro. He died in 2005.

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Fonds consists primarily of records about William Gibson's agricultural awards between 1929 and 1937. The records are either photocopies or slides taken of certificates, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and displays, and photographs of William and his son Gordon Gibson accepting awards. The fonds also includes an interview on cassette tape with Gordon Gibson and his wife Jeane in 1981, and photographs of William Gibson, other family members, and scenes in Ladner and Delta.

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Donated by Gordon Gibson

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      Created on August 13, 2014

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