Pat McGeer had an estimated net worth of $5 million at the time of his death. He garnered this wealth through his career as a Canadian physician, professor, medical researcher and politician.
McGeer was a basketball player at the University of British Columbia, leading the Thunderbirds to a win over the famed Harlem Globetrotters in 1946. He also played for the Canadian national basketball team at the 1948 Olympic Games in London.
The Vancouver native studied at Princeton and worked for DuPont Chemical, where he helped develop Teflon in the early 1950s.
After returning to British Columbia, he switched to politics. He was elected in 1962 as a British Columbia Liberal and later served as party leader.
He left the British Columbia Liberals to join the Socreds. After Bill Bennett formed government in 1975, McGeer held several cabinet positions, including minister of education.
After leaving politics in 1986, McGeer focused on science, spending decades researching Alzheimer’s disease alongside his wife, Edith.
In 1995, he and his wife Edith were inducted as Officers of the Order of Canada.
In 2002, they were jointly inducted as Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 2005 they were jointly inducted into the Order of British Columbia.
Pat McGeer died at his home in Vancouver on August 29, 2022, at age 95.