Robert Bonner

After politics Bonner resigned from his cabinet positions in 1968 to become vice-president of MacMillan Bloedel, a Vancouver-based logging and lumber company, and went on to become the firm's president and chief executive officer; he stayed on as MLA until the end of his term in 1969. After leaving the position of MacMillan Bloedel chairman in 1974, he was appointed in 1976 by Premier Bill Bennett (son of W. A. C. Bennett) as chair of BC Hydro, the provincial crown corporation responsible for producing and supplying hydroelectric power. He resigned from that position in 1985 amidst lawsuits pertaining to his personal affairs, then became partner at the firm Robertson, Ward, Suderman and Bowes.

He died in Vancouver in 2005 at age 84.

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