After returning to Canada, he had a triumphant success in Montreal performing Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op.
That same year he began playing first violin in a string quartet and working as a teacher.
He was a soloist with the Toronto Philharmonic Society in 1893 where he had success performing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.
In 1906 he joined the faculty of the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, where he taught through 1923.
His wife taught piano at the conservatory and his daughter was later a singing teacher at the school.