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To: Admirable Judges of the Canadian Wall of Fame.
From: Ben Atkins; Representative of Clifford Sifton.

The purpose of this letter is to promote Sir Clifford Sifton for the wall of fame and as being one of the significant Canadians ever. No one has changed western Canada's history like this man. Canadian immigration policy in the first decade of the century is associated with no one individual more than Clifford Sifton.
Like many of Manitoba's elite, Sifton was born in Upper Canada (Ontario) and came to Manitoba with his family as a youth. Trained as a lawyer, Sifton made his career first in provincial and later in federal politics. He was elected as a Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in 1888, and he served in the Greenway cabinet from 1891 to 1896 as Attorney General and Minster of Education. It was in the latter capacity that he played a central role in negotiating the Laurier-Greenway Compromise that partially resolved the contentious issue of religious schooling......

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