When William Archie Hood was born on 6 November 1904, in Manitoba, Canada, his father, Allan Cochrane Hood, was 22 and his mother, Mary McLeod, was 27. He married Christina Sophia Ellen McManus on 11 June 1929, in Lansdowne, Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Marquette, Woodlands, Manitoba, Canada for about 20 years. He died on 9 January 1976, in Minnedosa, Manitoba, Canada, at the age of 71, and was buried in Basswood, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Canada.