Gordon Dowding

Who was Gordon Dowding?

Gordon Hudson Dowding was a lawyer and politician in British Columbia, Canada. He represented Burnaby and then Burnaby-Edmonds in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1956 to 1975 as a CCF/NDP member.

He was born in Kamloops and educated in Kamloops and at the University of British Columbia. In 1945, he married Gwen Olson. Dowding was called to the British Columbia bar in 1952 and the Alberta bar in 1967. He was an unsuccessful candidate in the provincial riding of Lillooet in 1952 and 1953. Dowding was speaker for the British Columbia assembly from 1972 to 1975. He was defeated by Ray Loewen when he ran for reelection in 1975.

In 1962, Dowding was a founding member of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.