James Kenneth Gray was born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

 in 1933. He came to Calgary

Calgary

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 in 1956 to pursue a career in Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

's energy sector. In 1973, he co-founded Canadian Hunter Exploration, an organization that became one of Canada's largest and most successful natural gas companies."

Gray has served as an independent director of Brookfield Asset Management

Brookfield Asset Management

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 (an NYSE listed company) since April 1997. He is also a director of Canadian National Railway

Canadian National Railway

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 and Phoenix Technology Income Fund, and Chairman of the Canada West Foundation.

External links

• http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/gray_j_k.cfm
• http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/bio/gray_j_k.htm
• http://www.brascancorp.com/AboutUs/BoardofDirectors.html