William George Poy, MM (Chinese: 伍英才; 17 May 1907 – 3 February 2002) was an Australian-born Canadian civil servant and businessman of Chinese descent.
He served with the Royal Hong Kong Regiment (the Volunteers) during World War II as a Lance Corporal messenger and worked for the Canadian Trade Commission in Hong Kong.
He was awarded the Military Medal for his service in Hong Kong.
[1] He left Hong Kong in 1942 and settled in Ottawa, Ontario, with his wife Ethel Poy, a fellow migrant from Guangdong province of Hakka descent and their two children, Adrienne and Neville.
Poy obtained a degree in political science from the University of Ottawa.