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Baldwin, Robert

Cemetery: St. James Cemetery, Toronto
Date of Birth: May 12, 1804 Place of birth: York (now Toronto), Upper Canada (now Ontario)
Date of Death: December 9, 1858 Place of death: at his home "Spadina", Yorkville (Toronto), Ontario (Canada West)

Robert BaldwinRobert Baldwin along with his political partner Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, led the first responsible ministry in Canada, regarded by some as the first truly responsible government.

In 1829 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, but at the general elections of 1830 he was defeated, and he did not again sit in the legislature until after the Union of 1841.

 

 

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    St. James Cemetery

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St. James Cemetery, Toronto
St. James Cemetery is the oldest cemetery in Toronto still in operation. The cemetery opened in 1844 as the burial ground for St. James Cathedral. 

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