death_date death_place predecessor birth_place successor imagesize party office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name occupation
24 june 1933 winnipeg , manitoba arthur puttee watford , canada west alexander haggart 150px liberal member of parliament for winnipeg february 15 , 1856 january 11 , 1905 isabella lennox david wesley bole.jpg david wesley bole
 september 17 , 1908 david wesley bole pharmacist , wholesaler
david wesley bole

david wesley bole -lrb- february 15 , 1856 -- june 24 , 1933 -rrb- was a canadian pharmacist , businessman , and politician .
born in watford , warwick township in lambton county , canada west , the eldest son of irish immigrants , james and anne bole , bole was educated in watford public school and at woodstock college .
he worked as an editor of a watford newspaper before studying pharmacy .
he graduated from the ontario college of pharmacy in 1880 .
he married isabella lennox and moved to regina in 1882 where he opened a drug store .
in 1885 , he moved to winnipeg and founded the bole drug company limited in 1898 .
he was an alderman on the winnipeg city council and president of the board of trade of winnipeg .
for several years he was a member , and three years chairman of the winnipeg school board .
he was first elected to the canadian house of commons for the electoral district of winnipeg in the general elections held in 1904 .
a liberal , he did not run in the 1908 election .
he helped found the drug wholesaler company national drug and chemical company of canada -lrb- now mckesson canada -rrb- in 1905 and was its first president .
he retired in 1922 .
he died in winnipeg in 1933 of a stroke .
bole street in winnipeg is named in his honor .
