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Frederick Widder

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Citizenship
  
British

Died
  
February 1, 1865

Term
  
1839-1864

Parents
  
Charles Ignatius Widder

Movement
  
Family Compact

Predecessor
  
William Allan

Name
  
Frederick Widder


Frederick Widder

Residence
  
Lydhurst, (Front Street, Toronto)

Known for
  
Settlers Provident Savings Bank

Title
  
Commissioner, Canada Company

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. 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. 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. Widder's wife, Elizabeth, entertained in style providing upper-class residents of York with refined entertainments redolent of British aristocratic and middle-class life.

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Frederick Widder Wikipedia