[citation needed] He served as chancellor of McMaster University in Ontario for 18 years to 1941, overseeing its move from Toronto to Hamilton.
Born in Antigonish Harbour, Nova Scotia, he graduated from Acadia University.
[1] Reverend Whidden served as a home mission pastor in Manitoba and in Galt, Ontario.
[1] He sat in the House of Commons of Canada for four years as a member of the Robert Borden/Conservative led Union government of 1917 (which gave women the right to vote).
Her sister, Susie, was the proprietor and Principal of the Netherwood School for girls in Rothesay, New Brunswick.