Nathaniel Boyd was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician.

Born in Lachute, Canada East

Canada East

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, the son of Hugh Boyd and Maria Kilfoyle, Boyd attended common schools in Oxford County, Leeds and Grenville and studied at the Grammar School in Ottawa. After school, he worked with his father in railroad contracting and spent time working in telegraphy. He moved to Manitoba

Manitoba

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 and worked as the chief train dispatcher and assistant superintendent for the Canadian Pacific Railway

Canadian Pacific Railway

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 in Manitoba. Afterwards, he started a wholesale and retail lumber business in Winnipeg called Boyd and Crowe, which operated in the Point Douglas

North Point Douglas

North Point Douglas is a small neighbourhood located in the city of Winnipeg, Canada.North Point Douglas comprises the northern portion of a peninsula of the Red River. Its boundaries are Main Street , Redwood Avenue , the Red River , and the Canadian Pacific Railway mainline , which bisects the...

 district of Winnipeg. In 1886, he started a ranching business with a ranch of 23000 acres (93.1 km²).

He first ran as the Conservative

Conservative Party of Canada (historical)

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 candidate for the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 for the riding of Marquette

Marquette (electoral district)

Marquette was a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1871 to 1979.This riding was created in 1871 following the creation of the province of Manitoba in 1870....

 in the 1891 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1891

The Canadian federal election of 1891 was held on March 5 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 7th Parliament of Canada. It was won by the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald....

 but was defeated. He was acclaimed in a 1892 by-election

By-election

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 resulting from the resignation of the sitting MP, Robert Watson

Robert Watson (Canadian politician)

Robert Watson was an industrialist and political figure in Manitoba, Canada. He represented Marquette in the Canadian House of Commons from 1883 to 1892 as a Liberal and Portage La Prairie in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal from 1892 to 1899...

. He was re-elected in 1896

Canadian federal election, 1896

The Canadian federal election of 1896 was held on June 23, 1896 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 8th Parliament of Canada. Though the Conservative Party won a plurality of the popular vote, the Liberal Party, led by Wilfrid Laurier, won the majority of seats to form the...

 for the riding of Macdonald

Macdonald (electoral district)

Macdonald was a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1892 to 1949.This riding was created in 1892 from parts of Marquette ridings....

. The election was declared void in 1897 and Boyd did not run in the resulting by-election. He did run and win again in 1900 election

Canadian federal election, 1900

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 and was defeated in 1904 election

Canadian federal election, 1904

The Canadian federal election of 1904 was held on November 3 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Canada...

 this time for the riding of Portage la Prairie

Portage la Prairie (electoral district)

Portage la Prairie was a federal electoral district in Manitoba, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1949.This riding was created in 1903 from parts of Macdonald riding....

.

He died at the age of 88 in 1941.