Il a été élu trois fois au Parlement du Canada, mais on ne lui a jamais permis d'occuper son siège. Toutefois, selon la légende métisse, une nuit de 1871, avec ses collègues Métis, il aurait pagayé jusqu'au pied de la Colline du Parlement, escaladé la falaise et inscrit son nom au registre avant de gagner son siège.
He was elected three times to the Canadian Parliament and was never allowed to take his seat, although Métis lore has it that he did paddle his canoe to the foot of Parliament Hill with his Métis colleagues, climbed the cliff, entered his name into the permanent record and took his seat one night in 1871.
