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Robert Baldwin 1804-1858

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted May, 2007

Photo by Wayne Adam - Posted April, 2015

Photo by Alan L Brown - Posted April, 2009

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In the Ontario Legislature in Queen's Park on the second floor of the east wing, on the south wall, can be seen this Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque. Here's what it says:

Coordinates: 43.66228 -79.39138

Born in Toronto, Baldwin devoted his political life to a single cause. As a member of the assembly (1829-30 and 1841-51), as Executive Councillor (1841), as Solicitor General (1840-1), and as Co-Premier (1842-43 and 1848-51), he remained true to his vision until the second Baldwin-LaFontaine Administration established the principle of Responsible Government in Canada. That ministry also passed the Rebellion Losses Bill and laid the foundation for the municipal system in Ontario. Tired by the struggle, sick and unsympathetic to a rising tide of radicalism, he resigned in 1851. He died at Toronto.

More Plaques in Queen's Park
Honourable George Brown 1818-1880
King's College
Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806
The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion (1937-1938)
Queen's Park
Queen's Park
Queen's Park, Toronto
The Royal Tour of 1939
Sir James Pliny Whitney
Sir John A. Macdonald 1815-1891
Sir Oliver Mowat 1820-1903
Welcome to Queen's Park
William Lyon Mackenzie 1795-1861

More plaques inside the Ontario Legislative Building
Legislature of the Province of Canada
Lieutenant-General John Graves Simcoe 1752-1806
The Loyalists in Upper Canada
Sir Gordon Drummond 1771-1854

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