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Agents were appointed in every hamlet and city and town in the western states especially those states like Iowa and Illinois and Minnesota and Wisconsin, where land was becoming high priced. The personal testimony of successful farmers was bill-posted from station platform to remotest barb-wire fence. The country was literally combed by Sifton agents.
However, we reached the settlement, and met with a warm welcome at the home of our friend, the Hon. Mr Sifton. The business that brought us in to civilisation being soon arranged, we began our purchases of supplies for the return, special attention being given to the purchase of the extra load of good things.
Meantime the earlier road had branched westerly at Sifton, and by 1900 had crossed the border into Saskatchewan at Erwood; while in 1899, in amalgamation with the Winnipeg Great Northern, chartered and subsidized to Hudson Bay, the name of the combined roads was changed to the Canadian Northern.
Clifford Sifton, then Superintendent-General of Indian affairs in the Laurier Government, began arrangements in 1898 which led to the appointment of a Commission and the making of Treaty Number Eight in 1899. Strangely enough, the Hon.
And to the little old remittance man, Sifton, who caught his eye, he explained his need of a justice and the town marshal. "I'll try to find the judge," replied Sifton, with ready good-will, and at a sign from the ranger, Gregg and his herder entered the saloon. In fifteen minutes the town was rumbling with the news.
Mr Sifton made the measure the occasion for resigning from the Ministry. The controversy was a great surprise to Sir Wilfrid, who had considered that he was simply carrying out the agreement reached unanimously in 1875. The amendment satisfied all the malcontents of his party in parliament, but the controversy continued outside.
Never has there been so systematic, thorough, and successful a campaign for immigrants as that which was launched and directed by the minister of the Interior, Mr, now Sir Clifford, Sifton. He knew the needs and the possibilities of the West at first hand. He brought to his office a businesslike efficiency and a constructive imagination only too rare at Ottawa.
Blair, premier of New Brunswick, to Mr. Fielding, premier of Nova Scotia, and eventually to Mr. Sifton, the astute attorney-general of Manitoba. Sir Richard Cartwright and Sir Louis Davies to give the latter the title conferred on him in the Diamond Jubilee year both of whom had been in the foremost rank of the Liberal party for many years, also took office in the new administration; but Mr.
Sifton, the old remittance man, had been born to a higher culture, therefore was his degradation the deeper. His poverty was due to his weakness. Virginia was especially drawn toward him by reason of his inalienable politeness and his well-chosen words. He was always the gentleman no matter how frayed his clothing.
Minister of Agriculture, SYDNEY A. FISHER, of Quebec. Minister of Marine and Fisheries, LOUIS H. DAVIES, of Prince Edward Island. Minister of Militia and Defence, FREDERICK W. BORDEN, of Nova Scotia. Minister of the Interior, CLIFFORD SIFTON, of Manitoba. Minister of Customs, WILLIAM PATERSON, of Ontario. Minister of Inland Revenue, H. G. JOLY DE LOTBINIÈRE, of Quebec.
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