David Wesley Bole (February 15, 1856 – June 24, 1933) was a

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, businessman, and politician. Born in

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, Warwick Township in

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, 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

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in 1880. He married Isabella Lennox and moved to Regina in 1882 where he opened a drug store. In 1885, he moved to

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and founded the Bole Drug Company Limited in 1898. He was an alderman on the

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for the electoral district of

in the general elections held in 1904. A

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, he did not run in the 1908 election. He helped found the drug wholesaler company National Drug and Chemical Company of Canada (now

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Canada) 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.

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