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Robert Baldwin (May 12, 1804 – December 9, 1858) was an Upper Canadian lawyer and politician who with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine of Lower Canada, led the first responsible government ministry in the Province of Canada.
May 9, 2024 · Robert Baldwin was a statesman who was joint leader with Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine (as the attorneys general of Canada West and East, respectively) of the first and second Reform administrations in the Province of Canada, which established the principle of responsible, or cabinet, government in.
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Jan 21, 2008 · Robert Baldwin, lawyer, politician, office holder (born 12 May 1804 in York [Toronto], Upper Canada; died 9 December 1858 in Yorkville [Toronto], Canada West). Baldwin was the first popularizer of responsible government and one of the first proponents of a bicultural nation. (courtesy Metropolitan Toronto Library) Early Life and Career.
The legacy of principled life and uncompromised action defined Robert Baldwin in his public life, and it hobbled his spirit even as a young man. For he was, as he later put it, “a sceptic – may God forgive me though I hope not wholly an unbeliever.” Moreover, he was melancholic, sickly, and intensely emotional.
May 23, 2018 · The Canadian politician Robert Baldwin (1804-1858) played a decisive role in articulating and applying the concept of "responsible government" that underlies the constitutional development of the Commonwealth.
Located prominently on a wall outside the Legislative Chamber is a portrait of Robert Baldwin, co-leader of Canada’s first responsible government (1848-1851).
(1804–58). That Canada is today a member of the Commonwealth is due in large measure to the political foresight of Robert Baldwin. He was elected to the legislature of Upper Canada in 1829, four years after he began the practice of law in his native town of York (now Toronto). Baldwin became the champion of responsible government.
