Frederick Widder (1801–1865) was a
Canada Company
The Canada Company was a private British land development company that was established to aid in the colonization of a large part of Upper Canada. It was incorporated by royal charter on August 19, 1826, under an act of the British parliament,, ...
commissioner and son of a Canada Company London director, with family connections to royalty and Anglican figures of influence.
[Robert C. Lee, ''The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853''.Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2004.p.149] 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. 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.
His wife, Elizabeth, provided upper-class residents of York with refined entertainments redolent of British aristocratic and middle-class life.
[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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Pre-Confederation Quebec people
1801 births
1865 deaths
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