Name: Peter George Boutilier Rank: Private Service Number: 3182027 Service: 10th Halifax Siege Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Force Date of Birth: October 23, 1888 Place of Birth: French Village, Halifax Co., NS Date of Enlistment: April 24, 1918 Place of Enlistment: Halifax, NS Address at Enlistment: Tram-building Halifax, NS Age at Enlistment: 29 Height: 5 feet, 10 ½ inches Complexion: Dark Eye Colour: Hazel Hair Colour: Black Occupation: Land Surveyor Marital Status: Single Next of Kin: Jennie Boutilier (Sister), French Village, NS Date of Discharge: July 10, 1919, at Halifax, NS Age at Discharge: 30 Date of Death: June 22, 1974 Age: 85 Cemetery: Mountain Cemetery, Yarmouth, NS Place of Death: Yarmouth, NS Peter George Boutilier was the son of Peter George Boutilier (1832-1916), and Rebecca Agnes Dauphinee (1852-1901), the brother of Florence Boutilier (b. 1883) and Jennie Boutilier (b. 1885), the husband of Jennie Evelyn (Prosser) Boutilier (1898-1968), and father of Robert Peter Boutilier (1928-1988), Virginia Ruth Boutilier (b. 1931), and George Maurice Boutilier (1933-2004). Peter obtained his diploma in land surveying from the Nova Scotia Technical College on March 7, 1916. He became a well known Land Surveyor in Nova Scotia. He worked with Ralph Pickard Bell to identify and develop the lumber and pulp and paper industry in the province. Peter served in Canada, England, and France with the 10th Siege Battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, and was discharged with the 1st Depot Battalion in Halifax in 1919. He married Jennie Evelyn Prosser October 10, 1922, in Yarmouth, NS. His son Robert was born in Tusket in 1928. On June 20, 1930, Peter was appointed Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia at Tusket. In 1931, he was living In 1942, he was elected President, Nova Scotia Fish and Game Protective Association. Owned and operated Boutilier-Prosser sawmill in Yarmouth. He died at the age of 85 and is interred at Mountain Cemetery in Yarmouth, NS.

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