Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton PC PC (Can) KC (October 26, 1858 – January 21, 1921) was a Canadian lawyer, judge and politician who served as the second...
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Sir Clifford Sifton, KCMG, PC, KC (March 10, 1861 – April 17, 1929), was a Canadian lawyer and a long-time Liberal politician, best known for being Minister...
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Sifton may refer to: Places: Rural Municipality of Sifton,a rural municipality in the Virden region of Manitoba, Canada Sifton, Manitoba, an unincorporated...
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1913 Alberta general election (section Siftonism)
the general election being a very short period of 23 days. Premier Arthur Sifton led the Alberta Liberal Party into his first election as leader, after...
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inspection. Perhaps most significantly, it set up a court system, with Arthur Lewis Sifton as the province's first Chief Justice. Though the founding of the...
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person to hold the latter position in Alberta—in the government of Arthur Sifton. When Sifton left provincial politics in 1917 to join the federal cabinet,...
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Great Waterways Railway scandal. Arthur Sifton replaced Rutherford as premier. Shortly before the 1913 election Sifton's Liberals jammed through a controversial...
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John Wright Sifton (August 10, 1833 – September 19, 1912) was a 19th-century Manitoba politician and the founder of an important political family in Western...
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Minister of Canada. Schawlow (Physical & Mathematical Sciences) – Named for Arthur Leonard Schawlow (Vic 4T1), American physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Stowe-Gullen...
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of the province's existence. Alexander C. Rutherford (1905–1910), Arthur L. Sifton (1910–1917) and Charles Stewart (1917–1921) led Liberal governments...
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Sifton Park is a residential neighbourhood in the Clareview area of north east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The neighbourhood was named for Arthur Sifton...
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government's caucus to promote, and finally name, Alberta's Chief Justice Arthur Sifton as Rutherford's successor. This decisive action helped put matters to...
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founded on December 16, 1910, by Alberta provincial charter under the Arthur Sifton government and officially opened on September 8, 1911. Originally "Mount...
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departed Paris on May 11; his Cabinet ministers Charles Doherty and Arthur Sifton signed the Treaty of Versailles on his behalf. Eleven days before Canadians...
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and served in the Cabinets of Premiers Alexander Cameron Rutherford, Arthur Sifton, and Charles Stuart as Alberta's second Minister of Agriculture from...
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support for conscription was high, the incumbent Liberal government of Arthur Sifton decided to break with federal Liberal leader Wilfrid Laurier and support...
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Premier of Alberta – Alexander Cameron Rutherford (until May 26) then Arthur Sifton Premier of British Columbia – Richard McBride Premier of Manitoba –...
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1920: Arthur Sifton, Chairman 1919–1921 and Minister of Customs and Inland Revenue (Canada) Hugh Guthrie - Chairman 1921 - appointed to replace Sifton George...
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replace Rutherford, that role fell instead to Arthur Sifton, the province's chief judge. Left out of Sifton's cabinet, Cushing did not seek re-election in...
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The Sifton Ministry was the combined Cabinet (called Executive Council of Alberta), chaired by Premier Arthur Sifton, and Ministers that governed Alberta...
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7 years, 262 days September 3, 1935 May 23, 1943 2 █ Social Credit 6 Arthur Sifton 7 years, 157 days May 26, 1910 October 30, 1917 2 █ Liberal 7 Don Getty...
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Turnbull McEwen, then-President of the club, was present along with Mayor Arthur Radcliffe Boswell, ex-Alderman John Hallam, Alderman John Baxter, John Wilson...
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Otávio de Langgaard Menezes [es] Canada Robert Borden Charles Doherty Arthur Sifton Signed under 'British Empire'. Prime Minister Borden fought successfully...
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Waterways Railway scandal, Rutherford was subsequently replaced by Arthur Sifton. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party led by Richard Bennett...
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Alberta Court: David Lynch Scott and Arthur Sifton. The latter was appointed the first Chief Justice of Alberta. When Sifton became the Premier of the province...
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Vermilion electoral district following the resignation of the Premier Arthur Lewis Sifton on October 12, 1917. He was nominated to run under the party banner...
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divided the Liberal Party and forced Rutherford to resign in 1910. Arthur Sifton, Alberta's chief justice was selected as the second Premier of Alberta...
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Winner Party Cause Retained Banff March 22, 1901† Arthur Sifton Liberal-Conservative Arthur Sifton Liberal-Conservative Ministerial appointment...
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Governor of Saskatchewan – Richard Stuart Lake Premier of Alberta – Arthur Sifton (until October 30) then Charles Stewart Premier of British Columbia...
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Rutherford's successor, Arthur Sifton, until Sifton re-appointed him Attorney-General in 1912. Cross served in this capacity under Sifton and his successor...
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