sentences:  Until his election all mayors had been Protestant and every mayor in the twentieth century had been a member of the Orange Order, which dominated the city's political and business establishment.Phillips became mayor by defeating Mayor Leslie Howard Saunders, an Orangeman, who had stoked controversy with his sectarian comments about the importance of the Battle of the Boyne.Phillips' victory marked a turning point in Toronto history and its transformation from a Protestant, staunchly British and conservative city to a modern multicultural metropolis.