Frederick Widder
Canadian businessman
About Frederick Widder
Lived 1801 – 1865 (aged 63–64).
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. 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.
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Who was Frederick Widder?
Canadian businessman
When was Frederick Widder born?
Frederick Widder was born in 1801.
When did Frederick Widder die?
Frederick Widder died on 1 February 1865 in Montreal.
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