Town of Gibsons

Population         4,182 (2006 Census)
Growth rate       7.1% (2002 Census)
Dwellings          1,880 occupied private dwellings
Area                 4.33 sq. km.

A short 10-minute drive from the Langdale ferry terminal, Gibsons was carved out of the hilly forest terrain of the Sunshine Coast. Known across the world as the home of the popular CBC Television series, The Beachcombers, the Town of Gibsons has two main commercial areas: Upper Gibsons which has shopping malls, restaurants, services and a light industrial area, and Lower Gibsons.

The main street in Lower Gibsons is filled people visiting the bakeries, cafes, and shops, or strolling along the bustling fishing wharf and a seaside walk that link Gibsons Harbour, with its log wharfinger’s building and boardwalk over the breakwater to Winegarden Waterfront Park.
 

Director Barry Janyk

Barry was first elected as a Councillor in the Town of Gibsons in 1996 and is currently serving his fourth term as Mayor.

He has represented the Town on the Regional District Board for nine years and currently serves as Chair of the Regional Hospital District Board, Transportation and Corporate Services Committees and is the SCRD alternate to the Lower Mainland Treaty Advisory Commission (LMTAC).

An advocate of Smart Growth principles, a current priority for Barry is creating strategies for climate change mitigation. Barry is the Past President of the Association Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities (AVICC), Chair of the Island Coastal Economic Trust (ICET), Past Chair of the Coastal Communities Network (CCN) and on the Executive of the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM).

A former forestry services contractor, Barry was also helicopter owner and his company a commercial operator. He initiated and managed the Vancouver Harbour Heliport and continues to work as a heliport design and operations consultant in Canada and the U.S.

Barry moved to the Sunshine Coast in 1978. His wife Jane is an award-winning Lower Mainland journalist. They have a son, Garnet Matthew, born in April 2008.  Barry’s son, Kohlby, is an Ironworker and his daughter Roën graduated from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in May 2008 and is in the Library Sciences Masters program at UBC.