sentences:  He ran unsuccessfully as the Conservative candidate for the House of Commons of Canada for the riding St. Lawrence in the 1896 federal election.In 1892, he became a member of the Montreal Board of Trade, and in 1898 he purchased a
  seat on the Montreal Stock Exchange.He was one of the original directors of the Lachine Rapids Hydraulic and Land Company, which undertook successfully the development of the vast water power of the Lachine Rapids.