William Alves Boys was a politician

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 and barrister

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Born in Barrie

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, Ontario

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, he was mayor

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 of Barrie between 1902 and 1904 and commissioner

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 of Simcoe County, Ontario

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 between 1905 and 1906. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

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 in a 1912 by-election as a Member of the Conservative Party

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 to represent the riding

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 of Simcoe South

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. He was re-elected in 1917

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 and 1921

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 then re-elected in the riding of Simcoe North

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 in 1925

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 and 1926

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. He was the Whip of the Conservative Party (1921–1926) then Chief Government Whip

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 in 1926. During the 16th Parliament

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, he was a member of the Special Joint Committee appointed on claims of the allied Indian tribes of British Columbia

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