Frederick Widder
Frederick Widder Esquire | |
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| 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 |
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.
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]
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References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Robert C. Lee, The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853.Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2004.p.149
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- ^ 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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