He represented Poplar Point from 1870 to 1874 in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
He was born in the Red River Colony,[2] the son of James Spence and Jane Morwick, who was grandmother to John Norquay.
He represented the parish of St. Anne's at the Convention of Forty, a parliament organized by Louis Riel in 1870.
He was accidentally shot in his home by a neighbour, who thought his gun was not loaded, and later died from his wound.
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