Frederick 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.

Frederick Widder Esquire
Died	February 1, 1865(1865-02-01) (aged 64) Montreal, Quebec
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

Canada Company notice of Widder's position

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.