Eight years later he went to his native Canada and persuaded Ontario's Oxford College to donate enough money to start a college also named Oxford College, which was opened in Tamsui in 1882.
八年後，他回鄉探親，加拿大牛津郡的人籌集了一筆款子送給他；次年他又回淡水，選定了一塊丘陵地建築校舍，命名為牛津書院。