Frederick Widder

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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. rdf:langString
rdf:langString Frederick Widder
rdf:langString Frederick Widder
rdf:langString Frederick Widder
xsd:date 1865-02-01
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xsd:date 1865-02-01
rdf:langString Esquire
rdf:langString Settlers Provident Savings Bank
rdf:langString Charles Ignatius Widder
rdf:langString Elizabeth Jane
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rdf:langString Commissioner, Canada Company
rdf:langString 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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xsd:gYear 1865
rdf:langString Commissioner,Canada Company

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