As the first full-time employee of the Waterloo Cattle Breeding Association in 1946, and its manager from 1950 to 1963, Roy Snyder established the association as the first artificial insemination (AI) centre in the world to adopt an all-frozen semen program.
He was instrumental in importing the first purebred Charolais bull and placed the first Brown Swiss bulls into AI service in Canada. He also participated in the first combined Holstein-Friesian bull purchase by the Ontario AI centres.
Mr. Snyder is a past president and served as secretary-manager of the Ontario Association of Animal Breeders from 1963 to 1977, and was elected secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Association of Animal Breeders in 1964.
Active in community affairs, he is a past president of the Waterloo Co-operative Medical Services and the Co-operative Health Services of Ontario, and a member of the board of governors and past treasurer, Conrad Grebel College, University of Waterloo.
