He intermittently farmed and operated businesses in the Canadian West and served as Liberal MLA in the Alberta Legislature from 1905 to 1909.

He spent some time in Calgary working in a coal mine and settled at Red Deer Crossing in 1883, where he took over a claim from Esias Myers.

[1] He opened a chain of fur trading posts with James Cornwall and Alexander Monkman in the Peace River Country;[7] they sold these to the Revillon Frères in 1906.

[1] In his testimony, he estimated that the "good land north of Edmonton, east of the Rocky Mountains" amounted to at least 100,000,000 acres (40,000,000 ha).

[12] Bredin sought re-election in the 1909 election, but was defeated by fellow Liberal Jean Côté.

)[14] After leaving office, Bredin returned to farming and fur trading around Lesser Slave Lake.