He working in contracting and building in Halifax NS and then joined the Inter-Colonial Railway.
He served as a Captain in the Halifax Garrison Artillery.
He became a lawyer in the firm of Boak & Ritchie in Halifax.
In 1899 he came to Vancouver and practiced alone.
He married Elizabeth Ballantyne Reid and they had three sons: Captain Henry Eversley Boak, Arthur E.R. Boak, and Dr. Eric W. Boak.
Howay, F.W. (1914)
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