Complex sentence: Davis challenged HBC commissioner Donald Alexander Smith for the Presidency of the Provincial Agricultural Association in 1872--he lost this race, but was elected to both the Protestant school board and the new Winnipeg Board of Trade in February 1873.
Split into simpler sentences: Davis challenged HBC commissioner Donald Alexander Smith for the Presidency of the Provincial Agricultural Association in 1872. He lost this race, but was elected to both the Protestant school board and the new Winnipeg Board of Trade in February 1873.