[1] Fearon moved to Kingston, Ontario, in 1878 and joined the North-West Mounted Police where he was stationed at Fort Walsh.
[2] Fearon contested the 1894 North-West Territories general election in the Medicine Hat electoral district against incumbent Thomas Tweed.
In the years prior to the election, the Medicine Hat community became divided with Tweed around the issues of prohibition, hospital supply purchasing and obtaining government contracts for friends.
During the campaign Tweed's opponents depicted him as hostile to labour, against provincehood, and an ineffective representative.
[5] Fearon joined the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898 and returned to ranching in Maple Creek in 1901.