Gibson, J. Douglas

J. Douglas Gibson (1909-1988) was born in Toronto and attended Upper Canada College, Toronto and University of Toronto where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics in 1931. For the next thirty-four years Mr. Gibson worked for the Bank of Nova Scotia in various capacities including Assistant General Manager, Deputy Chairman, and Executive Vice-President. Mr. Gibson also held executive positions on numerous organizations dealing with political science, international affairs, public finance, and taxation between 1955 and 1966. He was the author of The Scotia Bank Story (with Joseph Schull), 1982 and editor of Canada's Economy in a Changing World. In 1964 he began a long association with Queen's University when he was elected to the Queen's University Board of Trustees and in May 1975 he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Queen's.