Arthur "Art" Boyce was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 goaltender. Boyce played for the Montreal Wanderers

Montreal Wanderers

The Montreal Wanderers were a Canadian amateur, and later becoming a professional men's ice hockey team. The team played in the Federal Amateur Hockey League , the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association , the National Hockey Association and briefly the National Hockey League . The Wanderers are...

 of the National Hockey Association

National Hockey Association

The National Hockey Association was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the direct predecessor organization to today's National Hockey League...

 from 1911 to 1915. His name is sometimes spelled as 'Art Boyes'.

Playing career

Boyce was born in Lachine, Quebec

Lachine, Quebec

Lachine was a city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is now a borough within the city of Montreal.-History:...

. He first joined the Wanderers organization in 1908, playing for the Wanderers 'second' team in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League intermediates. He then moved to the Montreal Westmount amateurs for two seasons. He became a professional with the Wanderers in 1911. He was the Wanderers #1 goalie for two seasons, then played two seasons with the Wanderers as the backup. After the 1914–15 season, Boyce joined the Canadian Army for a tour overseas. He returned to Canada in 1917 and settled in Nelson, British Columbia

Nelson, British Columbia

Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as "The Queen City", and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush,...

, where he played one season with the Nelson team in the British Columbia League.