 Moody is considered to be the founding father of British Columbia.He selected the site for and founded the new capital of British Columbia, New Westminster, and has been described as ‘the real father of New Westminster’.In British Columbia, he also established the Cariboo Road and Stanley Park, and named Burnaby Lake after his private secretary Robert Burnaby and Port Coquitlam's 400-foot "Mary Hill" after his wife, Mary.