Editing Province of Canada (section)

===Reform Association of Canada===
[[File:Second Meeting House.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|[[The Children of Peace|The Second Meeting House, Sharon]], where the Reform Association met in June 1844]]
During the year-long constitutional crisis in 1843–44, when Metcalfe prorogued Parliament to demonstrate its irrelevance, Baldwin established a "Reform Association" in February 1844, to unite the Reform movement in Canada West and to explain their understanding of responsible government. Twenty-two branches were established. A grand meeting of all branches of the Reform Association was held in the Second Meeting House of the Children of Peace in [[Sharon, Ontario|Sharon]]. Over three thousand people attended this rally for Baldwin.<ref>{{cite book|last=Schrauwers|first=Albert|title=Union is Strength: W.L. Mackenzie, the Children of Peace, and the Emergence of Joint Stock Democracy in Upper Canada|year=2009|publisher=University of Toronto Press|location=Toronto|pages=239–40}}</ref> the Association was not, however, a true political party and individual members voted independently.