Canada's Place in the War and Afterwards (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Canada's Place in the War and Afterwards
There are many questions which we shall have to settle after this war is over, and that is one of them.
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The Political Status of Canada: Address Before the Canadian Club of Ottawa, April 8, 1922 (Classic Reprint)
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Senate. There is also a limitation with regard to the extra-territorial application of our laws which I may make clear by reading a quotation from one of Sir Robert Borden srecent lectures. At page 129 he says: In the Canadian Parliament during the Session of 1920 a resolution was proposed by the Government to the effect that the British North America A ct should be amended by providing that any enactment of the Parliament of Canada otherwise within its authority shall operate extraterritorially according to its intention to the same extent as if enacted by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. In moving the resolution which received the unanimous assent of Parliament, the Minister of Justice explained that its purpose was to give an interpretation to the provisions of the British North America A ct which would settle what was then a disputable or unsettled question. It was not intended to encroach on the jurisdiction of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, but to make certain that any law enacted by the Canadian Parliament would be enforceable in Canada against Canadian citizens who might violate those laws outside the territorial limitations of the Dominion. He instanced as an illustration, the necessity of enforcing regulations to govern Canadian aerial navigation. Since the passage of the resolution there have been communications with the Imperial Government. A ny such legislation will probably be made applicable not to Canada alone, but to all the selfgoverning dominions. It is to be noted that although two years have elapsed the legislation asked for by the Canadian House of Commons has not yet been passed by the British Parliament and the limitation upon our powers still exists. These citations which I have given show that it is not correct to say that Canada has full and complete powers of government in regard to her internal affairs. These powers a
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Some Historical Reflections Relating to the War: Address (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Some Historical Reflections Relating to the War: Address
I have thought that it would be appropriate at the present meeting of the Women's Canadian Historical Society of Ottawa, to present some historical re?ections which may be of value in enabling us to form a more just conception of the importance of the struggle in which we are engaged, and the true meaning of it from the standpoint of the Canadian citizen.
Nothing that I will say, in so far as the facts are concerned, will be beyond the knowledge of any well-read school-boy. The knowledge of very important facts, however, frequently lies dormant. We do 'not always apply to the affairs of life the knowledge which is held in suspension in our memories. What I propose to do is to apply some of our common historical knowledge to the condition of affairs which exists in the world to-day.
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Speech on the Canadian Yukon railway House of Commons
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Speech on the Canadian Yukon railway House of Commons, Ottawa, 15th and 16th February, 1898. This book, "Speech on the Canadian Yukon railway House of Commons", by Clifford Sifton, is a replication of a book originally published before 1898. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
Clifford Sifton's father, John Wright Sifton, was a farmer, oil man, and banker and a devout Methodist. Of Irish origin, he moved his family to England and then to Canada, where Clifford was born in a farmhouse near Arva, Canada West (Ontario), on March 10, 1861. Clifford's older brother, Arthur Lewis Sifton (born October 26, 1858), was also destined to play an important role in the early political life of western Canada. In 1874 John moved the Sifton family again, this time to Selkirk, Manitoba.
Education
Clifford and his brother attended two Methodist institutions, Wesley College in Winnipeg and Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario. Clifford graduated in 1880 as the gold medalist. The two brothers articled (were apprentices) in Winnipeg and set up law practice in the town of Brandon, Manitoba.
Career
Clifford's father broke ground for his sons in politics, running for office six times, although with only moderate success. Clifford won his first provincial election in Brandon North as a Liberal in 1888, eloquently denouncing the monopolistic privileges of the powerful Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR). As attorney general of Manitoba, 1891-1895, he inherited the volatile, complex school issue that turned on the rights guaranteed to French and Catholic Manitobans to support their own schools. His passionate opposition to religious instruction in the schools brought him to national prominence. The issue was tearing Manitoba apart and presenting an intractable thorn in the side of the French and Catholic prime minister, Wilfrid Laurier. In 1896 Sifton worked out a "compromise" that effectively curtailed the separate schools but managed to save face for the prime minister. Laurier was impressed and brought Sifton into the federal cabinet as minister of the interior and superintendent general of Indian affairs. Despite a deafness that afflicted him all his life, Sifton's high energy, mastery of political organization, and incisive analytical mind set him apart, even in Laurier's talented cabinet. He negotiated the important Crow's Nest Pass Agreement with the CPR. He was responsible for the administration of the Yukon during the turmoil of the Klondike Gold Rush, and he was the agent in charge of presenting Canada's case to the Alaska Boundary Tribunal in 1903. Despite his successes, Sifton found it necessary to silence some of his critics in the highly partisan world of the press. He purchased the Manitoba Free Press newspaper in 1897 and hired as his editor John W. Dafoe, one of the ablest journalists in Canadian history (and a future biographer). Sifton's greatest accomplishment was the organization of a massive immigration into the Canadian West. From 1880 to 1891 over one million Canadians and immigrants had left Canada for the United States. Sifton had an unbounded confidence in the future prosperity of the Canadian West, and he determined to ensure that Canadian (that is, British), not American, institutions be established on the northern prairie. A born organizer, he eliminated the bureaucratic fumbling that frustrated settlers trying to buy land, simplified procedures, centralized decisions, and orchestrated a massive publicity campaign in Europe and North America. He dispatched lecturers to fall fairs in the United States and distributed pamphlets and ads in thousands of American newspapers. Six hundred U. S. editors (in an early version of the modern "media tour") were given free trips to Canada, as were British members of Parliament (MPs). Agents scoured Britain, Germany, and other European countries to publicize the "golden fields" of the West and to lure the "peasants in sheepskin coats" of present-day Ukraine and Romania to the Canadian West. Despite repeated attacks by nativists, Sifton's "stalwart peasants" turned some of the most difficult areas of the West into productive farms. Sifton's campaign stands as the greatest and most successful public relations campaign in Canadian history, bringing more than two million newcomers to Canada between 1896 and 1911. Sifton resigned from the federal cabinet on February 27, 1905, following a dispute with Laurier over school policy for the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. In 1911 he broke with the Liberal Party on its policy of "reciprocity" (free trade) with the United States, supporting the protectionist Conservatives. Though he did not run for Parliament again, he remained an influential presence in public life. He was chairman of the Canadian Commission of Conservation from 1909 to 1918, promoting conservation measures far ahead of their time. Sifton died on April 17, 1929, in New York, where he had gone to consult a specialist in heart disease.
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Quotations:
"I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens, is good quality. "
Personality
Despite the suspicion of many contemporaries that he was fabulously wealthy, he left an estate officially valued at $3. 2 million, though the government valued it at much more. He was highly secretive about his business affairs, and his biographers have still not discovered how, in the words of one critic, he came to Ottawa a poor man and left it a rich man. Many considered him ruthless and unprincipled, but Sifton was a man of exceptional achievement. He had a deep and persistent faith in Canada's future, and he left an imposing monument in the settlement and development of one of the world's greatest agricultural areas, the Canadian West.
Connections
Clifford Sifton was married at Winnipeg, Manitoba, on August 18, 1884, to Elizabeth Armanella Burrows. The couple had five sons.