Frederick Widder
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Frederick Widder (1801–1865) was a Canada Company commissioner and son of a Canada Company London director, with family connections to royalty and Anglican figures of influence.[1] His moderate approach and financial innovations for the Canada Company gave him good standing with the pioneers of the Huron Tract and the reformers of Upper Canada.[2] His administrative talents and hard work allowed him to advance past Thomas Mercer Jones and take the lead in the Canada Company.
Frederick Widder Esquire | |
|---|---|
| Died | February 1, 1865 (aged 64) |
| Citizenship | British |
| Known for | Settlers Provident Savings Bank |
| Title | Commissioner, Canada Company |
| Term | 1839–1864 |
| Predecessor | William Allan |
| Movement | Family Compact |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Jane |
| Parent | Charles Ignatius Widder |
Widder's home, Lyndhurst, became a social hub of Toronto.[3] His wife, Elizabeth, provided upper-class residents of York with refined entertainments redolent of British aristocratic and middle-class life.[4]
Bibliography
- Allan Wilson. "Widder, Frederick". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. University of Toronto. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- Bourinot, John G (1900). Canada Under British Rule 1760-1905. The Project Gutenberg eBook.
- Armstrong, Frederick H (1985). Handbook of Upper Canadian Chronology. Dundurn Press. ISBN 0-919670-92-X.
- Taylor, Martin Brook, ed. (1994). Canadian History: Beginnings to Confederation vol. 1. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5016-6.
- M.Brook Taylor (1994). Canadian History A Readers Guide. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802068262.
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