Ka cika wannan magana: An haifi John Morison Gibson, ɗan 'yan gudun hijira daga Scotland, a shekara ta 1842, a Toronto. Ya girma a gona a Caledonia, Ontario, ya tafi makarantar Hamilton Central, a Hamilton, kuma ya ci gaba da samun ilimi a Jami'ar Toronto, a matsayin lauya. A cikin 1860 ya shiga kamfanin jami'a na 2nd Battalion Volunteer Militia na Sarauniyar Kan Kan Kan Kanada kuma ya kasance mai harbi na Wimbledon a 1874. Ya zama darektan wani kamfani kuma ya soma sha'awar waƙa da zane-zane. Bayan ya dawo Hamilton a 1864, ya shiga cikin 13th Battalion a matsayin mai shiga. A shekara ta 1866, ya kasance laftanan a cikin Bataliya ta 13, kuma ya yi yaƙi a yakin Ridgeway, yana karewa da
'Yan Fenian sun kai hari. Ya tashi a cikin rukunin Battalion na 13 kuma ya kasance Kwamandan Kwamandan daga 1886 zuwa 1895 (duba tarihin tarihin Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment)). Ya kasance memba na Majalisar Dokoki daga 1879 zuwa 1905 kuma ya rike mukaman Sakataren lardin, Kwamishinan Crown Lands da Babban Lauyan Ontario. An nada Gibson Mataimakin Gwamnan Ontario a shekarar 1908, kuma an nada shi a shekarar 1912. A lokacin mulkinsa, an kammala sabon Gidan Gwamnati a Chorley Park (yanzu an rushe). Gibson ya yi aiki a matsayin Mataimakin Gwamna har zuwa 1914. Ya kasance daya daga cikin Hamilton "5 Johns", wanda, a 1896, ya kafa Kamfanin Dominion Power da Transmission, wanda ya kawo wutar lantarki, a karo na farko, zuwa Hamilton, daga masana'antar su, a DeCew Falls. John Dickenson wani ne daga cikin 5 Johns.