Daughter, Patricia Aldyen Austin Taylor married American conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley, Jr.[6] During World War I, Austin Taylor was part of the Canadian military and was appointed director of the Department of Aeronautical Supplies with responsibility for overseeing the harvesting and preparation of spruce lumber for military aircraft production.
[7] During World War II, Major Taylor was appointed chairman of the British Columbia Security Commission, a provincial government agency created to manage Japanese Canadian internment.
In recognition of his service, Taylor was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
According to his biography at the Hall of Fame, Austin Taylor "assembled the most powerful stable ever seen in Western Canada during the 1930s."
[11] In 1936, his horses won every handicap of importance at the Tanforan Racetrack meeting [12] including Indian Broom who set a world record of 1:47 3/5 for a mile and an eighth on dirt.