Elected Official
Gentner served as an MLA for Delta North from 2005-2013. He was Vice Chair of Parliament’s Select Standing Committee on Crown Corporations, member of Government Public Accounts, and Opposition Critic for Intergovernmental Relations, and Public Health.
Guy Gentner served as a Delta City Councillor for six years and chaired the Parks, Recreation and Culture Commission; Planning and Transportation Committees and Delta’s Heritage and Conservation Committee. He also presided over the Mayor’s Task Force for Preservation and Purchase of Burns Bog and represented the city as an alternate board member to Metro Vancouver and served on Regional District’s Parks Committee.
Researcher
Guy Gentner holds a Bachelor’s Degree in History from Simon Fraser University.
As of 2026, Gentner had spent over 20 years of intensive research into the diaries.
“Guy Gentner’s base knowledge of Mackenzie King is astounding!”
– King expert Queens University Professor of History Jeff Brison
During his first seven years of sleuthing MacKenzie King’s diary, Gentner discovered anomalies, missing pieces, fragmentation and vivid references of previous, extraordinary events that weren’t recorded. He began questioning the diary’s authenticity, interviewed knowledgeable historians. In late 1985, he met Canada’s former Dominion Archivist and Executor of the King Papers, Dr. William Kaye Lamb.
Writer
Guy is currently working on two writing project; a novel and a non-fiction work on the King diary.
The novel is a psycho- historical portrait as to what drove and motivated King through his long career. Although people are aware of Mackenzie King’s spiritualism, few know how much dreams and visions influenced his life.
The Dog’s Milk is a non-fiction examination of the events surrounding the disposition of Mackenzie King’s diary. Gentner identifies various players in the assemblage and removal prior to the diaries publication.
Gentner continues to explore and investigate other stories from King’s extensive diaries.
Guy is a member of a local writer’s group in Powell River BC.