Sifton, Clifford, Sir, 1861-1929

LC control no.	n 81139448
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Sifton, Clifford, Sir, 1861-1929 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	18610310
Death date	19290417
Place of birth	Ontario
Place of death	New York (N.Y.)
Affiliation	Canada. Commission of Conservation
Profession or occupation	Lawyers Businesspeople Politicians Publishers and publishing
Found in	Geography of the Dominion of Canada and atlas of western Canada setting forth, for use in schools and for the guidance of intending settlers, an account of its resources and development with maps of Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime provinces, Manitoba, British Columbia, Assiniboia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan besides general maps and numerous diagrams, 1904: title page (issued by direction of Clifford Sifton) Some historical reflections relating to the war, 1915: title page (Sir Clifford Sifton) Revue du travail de la Commission de la conservation, 1917 title page (Sir Clifford Sifton) Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, via WWW, January 13, 2015 (Sifton, Clifford (1861-1929); Sir Clifford Sifton was a successful Manitoba lawyer, entrepreneur, member of the provincial and federal governments, and newspaper publisher; Sifton was born near Arva, Ontario, on March 10, 1861, educated there and in Manitoba, and trained as a lawyer in Winnipeg; he settled in Brandon in 1882, where he established a law practice and speculated in land during the early settlement years of the region; elected to the provincial legislature in 1888, he became attorney general in the Liberal government of Thomas Greenway in 1891; in November of 1896 he became minister of the interior and superintendent-general of Indian Affairs in the federal Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Sifton was responsible for government policy in the Yukon during the gold rush beginning in 1897, and he was Canada's agent general during the Alaska Boundary Tribunal of 1903; during World War I he aided in the organization and successful election campaign of a win-the-war Union government, dedicated to implementing a policy of conscription; Sifton was knighted in 1915; in 1909 Laurier appointed Sifton to head the Canadian Commission of Conservation, a position he held until November 1918; in 1897-1898 he had purchased the Manitoba Free Press of Winnipeg to be the major organ of the Liberal Party in western Canada; he died in New York City on April 17, 1929)