Ferris Bolton was a politician

Politician

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 and farmer

Farmer

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. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 as a Member of the Unionist Party

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 in the 1917 election to represent the riding

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 of Lisgar

Lisgar (electoral district)

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. Prior to his federal political experience, he was reeve of South Dufferin and Pemble, Manitoba between 1880 and 1894 and reeve of Pembina, Manitoba

Pembina, Manitoba

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 between 1891 and 1894. Bolton was also Postmaster

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 of Calf Mountain from 1881 to 1900, and postmaster

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 at Darlingford from 1913 to 1917.

He married Jennie Stewart on December 22, 1880 with whom he had five sons, three of whom were killed in World War I

World War I

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, and two daughters. He was the son of John F. and May "Hannah" Bolton.