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Sifton's Sheepskins
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the so-called Galicians, who entered Canada in the 1890's under the immigration policy of Sir Clifford Sifton, 1861-1929, then Liberal Minister of the Interior.
Quotations
1900
[Peasants in sheepskin coats. Phrase used by Conservative Party speakers, election November 1900; a reference to the type of immigrants preferred by Clifford Sifton.]
1916
"Sifton's sheepskins" the Conservative critics called them.
1955
Today, the Alberta descendants of Sifton's Sheepskins number nearly 100,000 and they form the third largest racial group.