Frederick Widder
| Frederick Widder Esquire | |
|---|---|
| Died |
February 1, 1865 (aged 64) Montréal, Québec |
| Residence | Lydhurst, (Front Street, Toronto) |
| Citizenship | British |
| Known for | Settlers Provident Savings Bank |
| Title | Commissioner |
| Term | 1839-1864 |
| Predecessor | William Allan |
| Movement | Family Compact |
| Religion | Christian |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| 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
- ↑ Robert C. Lee, The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853.Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2004.p.149
- ↑ Alan Wilson. "Widder, Frederick". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. University of Toronto. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- ↑ "Robert Jameson's villa: An early house in the Wellington Place Neighbourhood". Wellington Place. Wellingston Place Neighbourhood Association. Retrieved April 8, 2011.
- ↑ 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.