For the majority of his life he was one of a small group committed to the art and practice of structuring urban growth in the first half of the century.

to St John's, Newfoundland, from the smallest scale details of garden design to a study of the nation's capital.

In 1903 Todd prepared a comprehensive report on the future growth of the nation's capital for the Ottawa Improvement Commission.

Between 1907 and 1912 Frederick designed three major garden city projects in British Columbia; Shaughnessy Heights and Point Grey in Vancouver, and Port Mann on the Fraser River.

From 1930 to 1940 he designed and supervised major public works projects in Quebec during the depression including St. Helen's Island (1936), Beaver Lake in Mount Royal Park (1939) and developed a proposal for an impressive sports centre for the British Empire and Olympic games in Maisonneuve Park, Montreal (1938).

Some of his works in Montreal included St. Helen's Island Park (Île Sainte-Hélène),[3] Beaver Lake on Mount Royal and the Garden of the Way of the Cross at St. Joseph's Oratory.

Todd was also the designer for some other public spaces, for example, the Plains of Abraham, the National Capital, which was the Ottawa Improvement Commission Report.

[4][5] Todd masterminded the bucolic lots found in the elite Shaughnessy Heights in Vancouver, B.C., the 1907 neighbourhood built for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

He created many designs that dealt with "parks, open spaces, public institutions, roadways, and neighborhoods," some of which were donations and gifts to the communities (CSLA, 1).

Todd was a person that, although not widely known, was considered "one of the great landscape architects and urban planners in Canada at the end of the 19th Century" who had created a respectable image as a designer that will remain prominent in Canadian history over time.