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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: American people of Anglo-Irish descent, Canadian people of Anglo-Irish descent, E. M. Forster, John Abbott, Davy Crockett, Cary Elwes, John McLoughlin, Robert Baldwin, Arthur Sifton, B.J. Penn, Lester B. Pearson, Peter Lougheed, William Desmond Taylor, Wade Davis, William Ralph Meredith, Patrick Cleburne, James Gordon Farrell, Arthur Oliver Wheeler, Charles Herbert Mackintosh, John Aimers, Gerald Heard, Tessa Kennedy, Frederick J. Conboy, James Alexander Lougheed, Edward Blake, Joseph G. Butler, Jr., Francis Hincks, Frederick Maurice Watson Harvey, Richard John Cartwright, Ambrose Bury, Sir John Johnson, 2nd Baronet, John Wolfe Ambrose, W. Morgan Sheppard, John Wright Sifton, Richard McBride, Edmund De Wind, Ian Adams, Art Hodgins, Clifford Sifton, John Edward Robinson, Frederick William Hall, Geoffrey Pearson, William Teel Baird, Arthur Labatt, Gordon Sidney Harrington, William Anderson, Henry Edward Clarke, John Labatt, Michael Pearson. Excerpt: Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC (October 26, 1858 - January 21, 1921) was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter. Born in Ontario, he grew up there and in Winnipeg, where he became a lawyer. He subsequently practiced law with his brother Clifford Sifton in Brandon, Manitoba, where he was also active in municipal politics. He moved west to Prince Albert in 1885 and to Calgary in 1889. There he was elected to the 4th and 5th North-West Legislative Assemblies; he later served as a minister in the government of Premier Frederick W. A. G. Haultain. In 1903, the federal government, at the instigation of his brother who was now one of its ministers, made Arthur Sifton the Chief Justice of the Northwest Territories. When Alberta was created out of a portion of the Northwest...
