Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a John Morison Gibson, te tama a ngā manene o Scotland, i 1842, i Toronto. I tipu ake ia i runga i te pāmu i Caledonia, Ontario, i haere ia ki te Kura Matua o Hamilton, i Hamilton, ka haere ki te ako i te Whare Wananga o Toronto, hei roia. I te tau 1860 ka uru atu ia ki te kamupene o te whare wananga o te 2nd Battalion Volunteer Militia o The Queen's Own Rifles o Canada, a, ko ia te kaitohu Wimbledon i te tau 1874. I riro ia hei kaiwhakahaere o tētahi kamupene, ā, i tino hiahia ia ki te puoro me te toi. I tana hokinga ki Hamilton i te tau 1864, ka uru ia ki te 13 o nga Battalion hei ensign. I te tau 1866, he kaitiaki ia i te 13 o nga Piriona, a, i whawhai ia i te Pakanga o Ridgeway, e tiaki ana i te
Ko ngā whakaekenga a ngā Fenian. I eke ia i roto i nga rarangi o te 13th Battalion a ko ia te Kaiwhakahaere Whakahaere mai i te 1886 ki te 1895 (tirohia te hitori o te regimental Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment)). He mema ia o te Whare Ture mai i te 1879 ki te 1905 me te noho i nga pou o te Hekeretari Porowini, Komihana o nga Whenua Karauna me te Kaiwhakarite Ture o Ontario. I tohua a Gibson hei Kawana o Ontario i te tau 1908, a i whakawhiwhia ia ki te rangatira i te tau 1912. I a ia e whakahaere ana, ka oti te Whare Kawanatanga hou i Chorley Park (kua wahia inaianei). I mahi a Gibson hei Kawana Kawana tae noa ki te 1914. Ko ia tētahi o ngā "5 Johns" o Hamilton, nāna i whakatū te Dominion Power and Transmission Company i te tau 1896, nāna i kawe te mana wai, mō te wā tuatahi, ki Hamilton, mai i tō rātou tipu, i DeCew Falls. Ko John Dickenson tētahi atu o ngā John e rima.