William Carlton Woods (February 24, 1891 – December 11, 1965) was a farmer and political figure in

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. He represented Kinistino from 1948 to 1952 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a

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. He was born in Tamworth, Ontario, the son of Stuart B. Woods and Mary F. Cleworth, and was educated in Napanee, Oakville and

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. During

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, he served in the Canadian Signal Corps and as a pilot in the

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. Woods returned from the war suffering from

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and, a few years later, was being treated with

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after taking part in some experiments with the use of the drug in

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in 1922. He served on the council for the rural municipality of Flett's Springs and was reeve for 15 years. Woods served as president of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, as a director of the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis Board and as a member of the senate for the

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. In 1923, he married Margaret H. Livingston. He lived in the Pathlow and then Kinistino districts. Woods was defeated by Henry Begrand when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1952.

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