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Outstanding among its accomplishments were the Municipal Corporations Act commonly called the Baldwin Act for the reformation of local government in Ontario; an act to revise the judicial system; and an act to transform King's College into the nonsectarian Univ. of Toronto (over the violent opposition of Bishop John Strachan ).

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