He moved to southern
Alberta in 1869. He worked as a whiskey peddler at
Fort Whoop-up when the
North-West Mounted Police marched west in 1874. He turned his hand to building the NWMP's
Fort Macleod and
Fort Calgary. He was general manager of the I.G. Baker and Company in Alberta in the 1880s. Davis was elected to the
House of Commons of Canada in the
1887 Canadian federal election. He was one of the first Members of Parliament to represent the North-West Territories. He represented the new Alberta (Provisional District). He was re-elected in
1891. . ==References==