He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1878 to 1886 and was the Minister of Agriculture under Conservative Premier John Norquay.
His father was Alexis Goulet, a St. Boniface resident of Métis heritage; his mother Josephte was the daughter of John Siveright,[1] a Scots factor for the Hudson's Bay Company.
He then ran in the riding of La Verendrye as an independent conservative, winning in the 1879 and 1883 elections.
In 1889, Maxime appeared in the Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West Show at the Exposition Universelle (Paris World's Fair).
In later years, Goulet worked in the land department of the Canadian federal government.