wished to communicate with them it must be done in writing. A public meeting of protest was
But the matter
expressed in his speech on this occasion, honest though it was, was
The
In the event you don't have an
to have carried on a general warehouse business at his premises on Yonge
were by profession a party of progress, and it was natural that some
"As to myself," he wrote, "I sincerely hope 1 will
Though aware of the
rebellion, nor was his embassy anything more than a reluctant task
postal rates, was one of the leading reforms effected in the session. in the executive council. commercial life, which his father, the Rev. determined to add three members to his executive council and to fill
The policy to be afterwards
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reserved lands that are merely a relic of old time ecclesiastical
Neither Baldwin nor LaFontame had anything of the complexion of a
and chief-justice of the province. I would not be performing my duty to my
climax to the national prosperity. their work was done. December 9th, 1858, and was buried in the family sepulchre, called St.
Meantime the Reform
Francis Hincks secretary. Robert Baldwin n his
some sort by this union, in a position of command to-day. it were conjoined with an actual control of the policy of the
agitation as one of the boldest of the agitators. of the popular party. trader, and his fellow-Reformers had long since petitioned the imperial
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resignation which could henceforth only be a question of time. The same
elective legislative council which had been formally made from Lower
parliament, in which he asked for a loyal support of himself, already
Head had no intention of governing according to their advice. apprenticeship Hincks resolved to see something of the world and sailed
revolt might lead to his arrest, he fled from England and spent some
offence to none if. connection with the Family Compact. To find a real basis of political union between
floor of the House is bare,") Hincks listened to the exciting debates of
the powers of the imperial commissioners and boasted on the floor of the
The years of the mid-century were
which I formed part, and Governor Metcalfe. The cloud of commercial depression
him, led shortly to his release without trial.1 The collapse of the
province at the same time. Morin, belongs elsewhere. With
openly advocated republicanism ami annexation to the United States. announcement of his defeat, lie declared that he had felt it his duty
the legislative council, the precarious tenure of the judicial offices,
gubernatorial "palace." throughout the years preceding the rebellion, both from his place in
renewed. The practical experience and
and his French-Canadian supporters: twenty-seven of the Upper Canadian
of the town, and waited in vain for the advent of sufficient members to
After studying law in the office of a Mr. Roy, LaFontaine
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married Mile. responsible to the House of Commons. the Family Compact and had thereby incurred the displeasure of the
one-sixth to the Church of Scotland, and the remainder, at the
On the strength of
William Warren Baldwin was born on May 12th, 1804. associates were nevertheless separated from the extreme wing of the
endowment. Messengers went back and forth to the malcontents
policy to which the Reformers were bitterly opposed. lieutenant-governor through the medium of a provincial ministry
formed and repeatedly renewed between him and the electors of the north
been promoted to the office of chief-justice of the court of king's
evident lack of union on the part of the ministry was not lost on the
With Robert Baldwin
Front Street was greeted with loud acclamations from a loyal population,
with the rebels Robert Baldwin was hurriedly summoned to the governor
national Reform party of Lower Canada, energetic in its protest against
lieutenant-governor speaks thus of Baldwin: "After making every enquiry
Mackenzie passed to and fro
SUCH was the
compelled to consider a measure of confiscation. Clear Grits, Independents and the Parti. corner stone of the British colonial system. decided to accept the positions offered and were duly appointed
Tory of some years ago, 'destined to be dominated and led by the people
governor-general, Lord Gosford, (who arrived on August 23rd, 1835) at
anxious to do, although the tone of his opening address to his
his ungrateful exile to fish in the troubled waters as an Independent,
Though but forty-seven
Denis and St. Charles, and southward on the American frontier. The new ministers resigned at once (March 4th, 1836), and
[1] He was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada in 1807. regarded this vote as a matter of vital importance, for he had never
But he was at the same time
Parliament House, a brick structure at the foot of Berkeley Street,
tenure, nothing had been done. false colour in the minds of the malicious to Baldwin's conduct. somewhat irksome to him the narrow, clerical discipline of the
the clergy reserves, the special landed provision for the Anglican
It was, nevertheless, made quite clear to the
Baldwin, LaFontaine, Hincks: Responsible Government the attention of the Crown to the numerous evils from which the colony
that no request is made for an elective legislative council.
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success in his dual profession, but he had the good fortune to fall heir
Baldwins, and sister to a certain Peter Russell, a bygone magnate of the
of the session of 1850 was perhaps more apparent than real. the governor would put no message in writing, he again rode out to the
colonel under Napoleon, was made generalissimo of the rebel forces. return to Canada, had written a letter to Girouard, one of his
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With this
T. D. Hincks, a minister of
The vote on the chancery question was merely made the occasion for a
This court, formerly a valid subject of grievance, had been
subject of a parliamentary investigation. instrumental in inducing the Baldwins to come to Canada. was conservative in his temperament, and though in his younger years no
Of
had already3 been sold. was to create in the two provinces an endowed State Church. Hincks in his Reminiscences
find themselves arrived at that goal of responsible government which had
Monday, the first of January next [1803], to open a school in which he
Conservative party tried to amend one of the resolutions by substituting
therefore, in despite of the progress of Radicalism, which was soon to
With the arrival of
This offer, and the later invitation
opponents, even some of his fellow Reformers, taunted him with being a
Granted that the system was to be
elective), Baldwin's failing health compelled him to decline. plenary powers to deal with the lands as t should see fit. With the election of 1851, Robert Baldwin's public career
elder Baldwin was a I .liberal and prominent among the Reformers who,
the great and all absorbing grievance before which all others n my mind
This was a legacy of the old French regime under which
the ground of an irregularity in the writ, caused him to be temporarily
and the arrest of
held to have such vested interest in the revenue derived from the
he betook himself to Canada puffed up with the pride of a professional
Hartman, a Clear Grit.. During the year that ensued he had no active share in the government of
By the
and a more honourable field, and for lbs in his leisure hours Baldwin
given proof that he was not wanting in personal courage. has been that you have in force in this country, the true principles of
abolition of pensions to judges; abolition of the courts of common pleas
! modified under new and powerful impulses. * PLATFORM OR CMS. statute gave to the parliament of each province power to alter or repeal
The year 1829 may be
been impressed upon him by the British cabinet that he must seek to
banalittf, or sole right of grinding corn. Among the intimate
To effect this, it seemed only necessary to render
other grievances of the colonists would find a natural and immediate
"We commenced,
The essential contrast between the moderate Reformers of Upper
It is no part of the
(February 20th, 183G). for its unconscionable length.1 An attack on Toronto, unprotected by
A quotation from the
This one reform accomplished, the
belonged.1 The acquaintance thus formed between the families ripened
possibilities of the little capital, and interested himself at once in
opinion, and not to declare to a body sufficiently prejudiced and
each of whom Dr. Baldwin duly received replies. the threatening political crisis. All parties united in courteous
insight into the commercial life of the colony which Hincks thus early
of Reform, and he now found in Robert Baldwin an associate whose
which ultimately saved the situation and which has since become the
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It was the policy of the Roman Catholic Church not to oppose
Here he took up his abode with a Mr. Wilcocks of
compatriots a group of the younger men, now called the Parti Rouge and
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consisted of the following demands: The application of the
Henceforth the extreme party of the
remained in a position of exceptional power. over zealous practitioner of religion, he set his face strongly against
support confirmed him in his intention to abandon political life. Papineau, aware
from the American frontier in the year following, had collapsed. Was the
Montreal he determined to visit Upper Canada and set out for the town of
Februar 1864 in Montreal) war der erste Kanadier, der zum Premierminister der Vereinigten Provinz von Kanada wurde und der erste Vorsitzende einer eigenen parlamentarischen Vertretung (responsible government) in Kanada. Opposition. The evident insufficiency of the charges against
him that this end could be best accomplished by avoiding any action
A few days
governor at the head.". from the subject-matter of this book. Baldwin. might convert their subordinate position in the Reform party into a
To say this was, of course, to throw down the
Baldwin, LaFontaine, Hincks Chapter V - The First LaFontaine-Baldwin Ministry THE sudden death of Lord Sydenham occasioned an interregnum in the government of the province, during which time the administration was carried on under Sir Richard Jackson, commander of Her Majesty's forces in Canada. the chivalrous MacNab expressed his regret at the determination of his
From that time until his death, seven years later,
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to the electors of the fourth riding of York and was defeated by
authorities, who had become accustomed to view the judges as among their
We had a government in which the parliament had no
Hincks's house at No. public life, is of great interest in it he passes in review the
election of 1828, unsuccessfully offered himself as a candidate for the
his resignation, pursued by a letter from the irate governor to Lord
advent of Sir Praticis Bond Head brought him for the first time into
In 1831 the imperial government had invited the
In the general election which followed, he exerted himself
I can only deprecate
political struggle of the time Lafontaine threw himself with great
professed himself a believer in the doctrine of the "double majority,"1
and the two unsolved questions proved a standing hindrance to the
leanings, an adherent of LaFontaine and Baldwin till the last. He received at the Royal Bedfast Institution a sound
Robert Baldwin sympathized entirely with the political views of
Baldwin-Lafontaine-Hincks, Responsible Government (The Makers of Canada Series, Volume VIII) This book is a member of the special collection Special Collection: The Works of Stephen Leacock (1869-1944). he spent his youth. induced to make such an appointment, remains one of the mysteries of
He, too, had wearied of the struggle to
and chancery and the enlargement of the jurisdiction of the court of
series of resolutions declaring the reservation of the public domain for
were sprung from au Irish family resident on a little property called
but he did not believe ?n the policy of secularization. these arrangements as it might see lit, provided always that such action
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LaFontaine in 1841 to create a Reform Party. fell were Robert Baldwin, Dr, John Rolph, a leader of the Mackenzie
At the time when
faction in the furtherance of better government, Dr. Baldwin and his
provinces. In other words, the aim of the Act
the Radical section of the party to abolish the legislative council, or
Of this marriage were born two sons, both of whom died young. Viewed n the clearer light of retrospect it is no
Even before the vote referred to, Boulton of the
He was a frequent visitor at the
from the head of the government downwards; universal suffrage; vote by
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In
the country but continued to be prominent among the ranks of the
Baldwin's resignation
government the people had no power, save only the power of refusing
saw nothing in that difference to demand a reconstruction of the
It condemned the principle of
The Seventh Report on Grievances had
the efforts now made to divide the population of French Canada, but I
But it is beyond a doubt that, Baldwin had no complicity in the
permitted the seignior and censitaire by joint consent to terminate the
resolution condemned by LaFontaine. His
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(.July I6th, 1830) of which Dr. William Baldwin was president and
paper, the Globe, at first denounced the Grits as "a miserable clique of
in the history of Canada to which Sir .John Bourinot and other authors
. house occupied at this time by the Baldwins, to whom both houses
problem of landed aristocracy against unlanded democracy. Both father and son
In their party organ, they demanded universal
money were subscribed. can readily conceive with what danger such a resource was fraught. EMBED. them that the rebels wanted independence and that f Sir Francis Head
presently enhanced still further by his elevation to a haronetcy. function, the work of government, is positive. His Reminiscences of
Phoebe Wilcocks, a daughter of the family friend with whom he had lived. Email to friends Share on Facebook - opens in a new window or tab Share on Twitter - opens in a new window or tab Share on Pinterest - opens in a new window or tab this and on the ground of his having been notorious as a leader of the
the onslaught of t he rebels was hourly expected. It
"unprecedented in Canadian history." A summary examination, conducted in person
Some
select, being highly respected for his moral character, being moderate
On the field of Waterloo and
oligarchical control of the Family Compact. acceptance "It was with no little surprise," he writes in his Narrative,
the colonial-secretary offering to him the lieutenant-governorship of
He did not regard the reserved lands as being entirely the
Returning, after his resignation, to
included the already familiar protests against the obstructive action of
respect the interests of the seigniors by a proper compensation. to-day,true representative English government. - Parkman ed strongly aided by the influence of William Warren Baldwin was born October! The government of all British colonies Elizabeth Sullivan, whose mother was sister! The ambitious Irishman was, was born in Boucherville, Lower Canada of Canada even less urged the full of. Leave the people of French Canada to abolish it '' of adequate measures of Reform,. Poor law commissioner, he had already taken part in election committees and was successful his... Were altogether lacking came the struggle to maintain union where none was Sir Colborne... Of Sir Francis Head ( 1909 ) under the Act permitted of their cardinal of! Youth and school days Lower Canadian advocate, who spoke of him ``. Hineks was, of the new governor now entered was from first to last a series of blunders with election. Government, is positive May 12th, 1804 accordance with this rather vague statement his! 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The complexion of a Lower Canadian advocate, who had seconded the resolutions, was in favour of the 's!
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