Though the hotel was "the best north of Edmonton, the advent of Prohibition in 1915 put an end to its viability, and it was soon closed and demolished.
When water levels in the river fell too low for the boat to operate, it was relocated to Lac Ste.
He operated this until the mid-twenties, when he moved to California with his son, Alex Perron, to attempt to go into business there.
He served one one-year term as mayor before leaving political life altogether.
The town council at the time claimed that it was only correcting a misspelling and that the road had always been intended to be named in Perron's honour, but an alternative theory states that it had been originally named in honour of France's Piron family, which had donated the bells for the St. Albert mission.