[1] During his term in office, the municipal council embarked on the town's first major public works projects, awarding contracts to M.N.

[1][2] He was rumoured to have drowned in Lake Ramsey,[1][2] but Sudbury resident Gus Harwood found him living in San Francisco in 1898.

[1][3] He had gone briefly to Yukon to prospect in the Klondike Gold Rush, but then moved to San Francisco after failing to stake a mining claim.

[1][3] In 2017, the Sudbury Theatre Centre staged a play written by local playwright Judy Straughan about Biggar's disappearance.

[4] The play's cast included the city's current mayor, Brian Bigger, as well as local writers Matthew Heiti and Roger Nash.