I think that a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born to the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half ...
I think a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat born on the soil, whose ... stout wife and a half-dozen children, is good quality.” Sir Clifford Sifton ...
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What was the significance of Clifford Sifton?
Sifton was appointed Minister of the Interior under Laurier and implemented a vigorous immigration policy called "The Last Best West" to encourage people to settle and populate the West. Sifton established colonial offices in Europe and the United States. He enticed people to come to western Canada.
What was the Siftons campaign?
Sifton immediately hired energetic, experienced communicators and promoters to spread the word that vast areas of good prairie land were open for settlement, and 160 acres of that land were available free to every agricultural settler.
As he later famously remarked, "I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin ... stout wife and a half-dozen children, is good quality." Sifton also was ...
"I think that a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born to the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a ...
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I think that a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, (my emphasis. sa) whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a ...
“A stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, and a stout wife and a half dozen ...
Sifton retired from politics in 1911, but is perhaps best known for his 1922 statement that “a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose ...
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"I think that a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born to the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a ...
I think that a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat, born to the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half ...
"I think a stalwart peasant in a sheep-skin coat, born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen ...
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