Gallery
A life in pictures.
Ralph’s working career, illustrated in over 30 downloadable images ranked chronologically from 1948 to 2018.
Ralph painting houses for his father at the age of 14
Lineman Ralph is barely visible at top of first completed tower Kitimat-Kemano electrical power tranmisson line, 1952
Ralph logging with his brother in law, Jarvis Inlet BC, 1954
Ralph at small logging camp, Jarvis Inlet, 1954
Ralph working on gaskets for Avro Arrow, 1957
Ralph attends Harvard Business School, 1958
Ralph, a student at Harvard 1959
Ralph learns underground drilling, Stockholm 1959
Ralph becomes Harvard professor, 1964
Ralph becomes Harvard professor in 1964.
Ralph as Harvard professor in 1966
Associate Professor Ralph Sultan strides up and down the aisles, provoking Harvard MBA students in a business case discussion. 1968
Ralph joins The Royal Bank of Canada as Chief Economist, 1973
Ralph joins Anglo American, 1981
Ralph leads RBC Global Energy and Minerals Group, 1982
Ralph goes into mining industry, 1983
Ralph in hard hat, mining in the Yukon
Ralph goes into wealth management, makes money for clients but not himself, 1989
Ralph goes into politics, 2001
Ralph teams up with David Strangway to create Quest University, 2002
Ralph leads BC MLA mining task force, 2004
Ralph and Premier Christy Clark at swearing-in ceremony 2012
Ralph promotes northern BC mining plan 2003
MLA Ralph Sultan and President Stuart McLaughlin of Grouse Mountain Resort entertain royal visitor Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado of Japan, 2004. (North Shore News image, credit photographer Mike Wakefield)
As guest of Doug Horswell of Teck Cominco, Ralph briefs mining students from Mongolia on BC's mining industries, 2005
In the latter years of his almost two decades of public service, Ralph still enjoyed giving a speech celebrating our wonderful province of British Columbia. 2015
Ralph gives speech in BC legislature, 2018
Ralph at home in his library, 2026
Ralph in recent years