Peter John Gerald Bentley, OC (1930[1] – 6 September 2021) was a Canadian businessman and the third Chancellor of the University of Northern British Columbia.
Bentley was born in Vienna, Austria to a Jewish family, the son of Leopold Lionel Bloch-Bauer and Antoinette Ruth Pick.
[1] They moved to British Columbia where his father, who changed his name to Leopold "Poldi" Bentley,[1] founded a furniture and paneling veneer company called Pacific Veneer with his brother-in-law John Prentice (of the Pick family) that later became Canfor Corporation, an integrated forest products company.
[5] He was also the chair of FORED BC Society, a federally registered charity in British Columbia created in 1925, that offers balanced education about forestry and natural resources.
In 1983, he was made an officer of the Order of Canada for playing "an important role in manufacturing, business and finance in British Columbia.