Frederick Widder

Frederick Widder
Esquire
Died February 1, 1865(1865-02-01) (aged 64)
Montreal, Quebec
Residence Lydhurst, (Front Street, Toronto)
Citizenship British
Known for Settlers Provident Savings Bank
Title Commissioner, Canada Company
Term 1839-1864
Predecessor William Allan
Movement Family Compact
Spouse(s) Elizabeth Jane
Parent(s) Charles Ignatius Widder
Canada Company notice of Widder's position

Frederick Widder (1801–1865) was a Canada Company Commissioner, son of a Canada Company London director, with family connections to royalty and the right Anglican connections.[1] His moderate approach and financial innovations for the Canada Company would give him good standing with the pioneers of the Huron Tract and the reformers of Upper Canada.[2] Widder's administrative talents and dedication to hard work allowed him to overshadow Thomas Mercer Jones and take the lead in the Canada Company.

Widder's home, Lyndhurst, became a social hub of Toronto.[3] Widder's wife, Elizabeth, entertained in style providing 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.

References

  1. ↑ Robert C. Lee, The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853.Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2004.p.149
  2. ↑ Alan Wilson. "Widder, Frederick". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. University of Toronto. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Robert Jameson's villa: An early house in the Wellington Place Neighbourhood". Wellington Place. Wellingston Place Neighbourhood Association. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
  4. ↑ Kristina Marie Guiguet, The ideal world of Mrs Widder's soirée musicale: social identity and musical life in nineteenth-century Ontario., Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2004.


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