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Big Daddy
Frederick Gardiner's public life was rich and long, from his initiation into politics as a Toronto schoolboy before the First World War, through his involvement with the Ontario Conservative party and suburban politics in the 1930s and 1940s, on through his years as first chairman of Metropolitan Toronto (1953-61), to the relinquishing of his last public office in 1979. This is a readable and perceptive biography of the exuberant and powerful politician who captured the public imagination of Toronto and created a legend around himself during his lifetime. The book focuses mainly on Gardiner's experience as founding boss of Metropolitan Toronto. This first metropolitan government in North Ame...
A Synopsis of the Life and Travels of Frederick Gardiner
Native of England converted to the Mormon Church. Immigration to America, landing at New Orleans, 1849, where he works at various jobs before leaving for Utah, 1851. Describes the Martin and Willey Handcart Co. which brought his parents to Utah in 1856. His travels take him back to England and back to Utah.
A Mormon Rebel
Frederick Gardiner's narrative begins with his childhood in Chalford Hill, England. It was there that he encountered Mormon missionaries and embarked on his journey to the United States, working in New Orleans and St. Louis before making his way to Utah in 1851. The rest of his family arrived by handcart five years later. Gardiner married, began a family, was employed as a mercantile clerk, and was hired by Brigham Young to oversee the toll gate at the mouth of City Creek Canyon. He soon argued with Young over his salary, for which he was excommunicated. Gardiner sought protection from Utah's new governor, Alfred Cumming, who provided him an escort as far as Fort Bridger, where he found empl...
Big Daddy
This is a readable and perceptive biography of the exuberant and powerful politician Frederick Gardiner who captured the public imagination of Toronto and created a legend around himself during his lifetime.
