About Frederick Langdon Hubbard
Lived 1878 – 1953 (aged 74–75). Frederick Langdon Hubbard was a Canadian politician.
Frederick Langdon Hubbard (1878–1953) was Chairman of the Toronto Transportation Commission from 1929 to 1930. He was the first African Canadian to serve on the TTC board (first as Commissioner and later as Chairman). Born in Toronto in 1878, Hubbard was son of a high profile African Canadian and Toronto politician William Peyton Hubbard and son-in-law to the first African Canadian licensed to practice medicine in Ontario Anderson Ruffin Abbott (whom he married daughter Grace Isabell Abbott).
Hubbard worked for the Toronto Street Railway from 1906 to 1921, and served as the chair of the TTC from 1929 to 1930, vice-chair in 1931 and a commissioner from 1932 to 1939.
Legacy Hubbard Boulevard in the Beach area of Toronto is named from him.
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Canadian politician
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Frederick Langdon Hubbard was born in 1878.
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