Career
He also belonged to the Royal Auto Club of London, England. Moodie invested in many businesses. As well, his father helped establish The Hamilton Cataract Power Company and Moodie invested heavily in the project
He was also president of the following companies.
The Royal Distillery (Hamilton) for nine years, Robinson Industries (Hamilton), Dover Industries (Chatham, Ontario) and also, president of a company operating the Hamilton-Toronto steamer run. Moodie was credited with the following.
He owned the first player piano in Hamilton, owned the first bicycle in Canada (1878), owned the first motorboat in the Hamilton Bay and also owned the first automobile in Canada (in Hamilton 1898), a one-cylinder Winton he imported from Cleveland, Ohio.