In 1893, while travelling in California, he encountered a buffalo (bison) bull named Napoleon Bonaparte, and believed that crossing Napoleon with domestic cattle would yield “radical improvement obtained in one cross; as much as, or more than, we could reasonably hope to effect in a century by the customary method of selecting.”

For the rest of his life, Byron was a fixture at the Bobcaygeon Area. In the era before television, just about everyone came out to community events. In Bobcaygeon, Friday night was Junior ‘D’ Hockey, and the rink was packed with fans.

Mossom Boyd rose to become one of the best-known and most successful timber barons in Canada. After the railway reached Lindsay and the colonies of British North America signed a Reciprocity Treaty with the United States, American lumber exports superseded the British timber trade as the primary market.