Frederick Widder

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| name = Frederick Widder

| honorific_suffix = Esquire

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1865|02|01|1801|01|01}}

| death_place = Montreal, Quebec

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| citizenship = British

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| known_for = Settlers Provident Savings Bank

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| title = Commissioner, Canada Company

| term = 1839-1864

| predecessor = William Allan

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| movement = Family Compact

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| spouse = Elizabeth Jane

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| parents = Charles Ignatius 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.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.{{cite web | url = http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4773&interval=15&&PHPSESSID=cikgia9vb9l0225781udvei662 | title = Widder, Frederick| work = Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online | author = Alan Wilson | publisher = University of Toronto|access-date=April 8, 2011}} 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.{{cite web | url = http://www.wellingtonplace.org/history/jameson-villa.php | title = Robert Jameson's villa: An early house in the Wellington Place Neighbourhood | work = Wellington Place | publisher = Wellingston Place Neighbourhood Association|access-date=April 8, 2011}} 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.