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About Trish
Business owner, community leader, mother
Trish Boyden is the President of United Stone & Site, a stone masonry company she has run for over 20 years. A lifelong Canton resident, Trish along with her husband Gary, raised her two children Alexandra and Anthony in Canton. They recently welcomed their first grandchild, Isla.
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Over the past two decades Trish has contributed to the Canton community in a variety of ways from serving on the Hansen Elementary CAPT, a founding member of Canton for a Sustainable, Equitable Future, chairing the Canton Democratic Town Committee, and leading the National Charity League Blue Hills Chapter. Learn more about Trish's experience as a community leader below.
Business & civic leadership
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President of United Stone & Site, Inc., a union stone masonry focused on public roads, bridges, and hardscapes (employing masons, laborers, and machine operators)
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Former President and a five-year member of the National Charity League Blue Hills Chapter, a local mother-daughter volunteer organization
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Former chair of the Canton Democratic Town Committee for two years and member since 2018, working to elect strong candidates at the state and national levels, collaborating on local events with groups in the area
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Indivisible Canton founding member; successfully helped to flip congressional seats
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Founding member of Sustainable Canton, helping to combat the climate crisis locally
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VP of Fundraising for Hansen Elementary CAPT during 2000s
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President of Canton Alliance for Public Education (CAPE) in 2007
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In 2001, Trish was instrumental in writing a town meeting warrant and lobbying for a sidewalk and berm on her street to slow the traffic flow allowing for safe passage to the street bus stops for the 20+ children in the neighborhood.
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From 2002 through 2008, she was active in the Hanson Elementary Canton Association of Parents and Teacher (CAPT). During that time, Trish was the VP of Fundraising, and raised funds for additional educational programming that wouldn’t otherwise have been available to students.
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In 2007, Trish became President of Canton Alliance for Public Education (CAPE) raising over $20K for Canton Public Schools and was integral in starting the Honor Thy Teacher program.
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In 2008, she worked tirelessly on the tax override to reduce overcrowded Canton Public School classroom sizes down from an average of 30 pupils per class.
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From 2009 – 2016, Trish was actively involved in the National Charity League of Blue Hills, a local mother-daughter philanthropic volunteer organization, and served as President for 2 of those years.
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From 2014 to today, she has been the chair of the Canton Democratic Town Committee, an Indivisible Canton founding member and a founding member of Sustainable Canton.
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As a founding Board member of Canton Residents for a Sustainable Equitable Future, she also worked on 2019 Canton Greenfest held at CHS and 3 successive years of Canton Earth Day Celebration
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In 2022 led on the Canton Climate Action Plan
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2021 Enabling Language for Municipal Energy Aggregation (now known as Canton Electricity Choice)
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2019 Plastic Bag Reduction at Point of Purchase