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Notes

Abbreviations used:

Prologue

1
MacGregor,
Vilni Zemli
, p. 77

2
Ibid., p. 79.

3
Ibid., p. 82.

4
Ibid., p. 81.

5
Ibid., 82.

6
Ibid., p. 78.

7
Ibid., p. 82.

8
Kaye, p. 131.

The Young Napoleon of the West

1
Brandon
Sun
, 26 Nov. 1896.

2
Ibid.

3
Hall,
Clifford Sifton
, vol. 1, p. 68.

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid., p. 27.

6
Dafoe,
Sifton
, pp. 105–6.

7
CH, 23 Dec. 1896.

8
Hall,
Clifford Sifton
, vol. 1, p. 126.

9
Quoted in ibid., p. 35 and Notes p. 312.

10
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 19 March 1897, Sifton to Arthur.

11
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 17.

12
PAC, MG 27 II D15,4 Aug. 1897, Macmillan to Sifton.

13
Troper,
Only Farmers
, pp. 26–30
passim
.

14
Fowke,
Canadian Agricultural Policy
, p. 178.

15
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 9 Feb. 1904, Sifton to Smart.

16
Palmer, p. 77.

17
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 10 May 1898, Sifton to Smart.

18
Palmer, p. 77.

19
MFP, 1 May 1897.

20
Timlin, pp. 521–22.

21
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 85.

22
CH, 8 April 1898.

23
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 5 July 1897, Sifton to Van Home.

24
Shepherd, p.8.

25
Troper,
Only Farmers
, pp. 94–95.

26
Ibid.

27
Hall,
Clifford Sifton
, vol. 1, p. 258.

28
Troper,
Only Farmers
, p. 90.

29
Sharp, “When our West,” p. 289.

30
HCSP, 1897, no. 13, 27 Jan. 1897, High Commissioner to Minister of Interior.

31
HCSP, 1898, no. 13, 15 Jan. 1898, High Commissioner to Minister of Interior.

32
HCJ, 1899, vol. 34, app. 3, p. 281.

33
MFP, 5 Jan. 1904.

34
Curwood, Son, pp. 198–201.

35
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 12 April 1902, Dafoe to Sifton.

36
McNeil, p. 131.

37
Fraser, J.F., p. 169.

38
Globe
(Toronto), 18 Nov. 1896.

39
Dafoe,
Sifton
, p. 48.

40
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 31 July 1897, Sifton to Richardson.

41
Ibid., 31 July 1897, Sifton to A.G. Rutherford.

42
Ibid., 7 April 1899, Sifton to Isaac Campbell.

43
Ibid., 25 Feb. 1902, Sifton to J.W. Greenway.

44
Ibid., 4 July 1900, Sifton to Willison.

45
Ibid., 3 March 1897, 22 April 1899, Sifton to his father.

46
Berton,
National Dream
, p. 243 ff.

47
Hall,
Clifford Sifton
, vol. 1, p. 95.

48
PAC, MG 27 II D15, 10 May 1899, Sifton to Willison.

49
Ibid.

50
Hall,
Clifford Sifton
, vol. 1, p. 216

51
CH, 22 Oct. 1904.

52
Fraser, Blair, “Many, Mighty Siftons.”

53
PAC, MG 27 II B1, vol. 2, 20 Oct. 1902, note on conversation between M into and Laurier.

54
WDT, 4 Oct. 1905.

55
Quoted in WDT, 30 Sept. 1902.

56
OA, RG 22, 6–2, no. 63279.

57
Trotter, p. 192.

58
PAC, MG 27 II Dl5, 1 Dec. 1903, Sifton to Smith.

59
Ibid., 19 Nov. 1903, Sifton to Dafoe.

60
Ibid., 21 Aug. 1903, Sifton to Harkin.

61
Ibid., 16 Aug. 1900, Sifton to Greenway.

62
Ibid., 2 Oct. 1900, Smith to Sifton.

63
Ibid., 15 Jan. 1897, Sifton to Laurier.

64
PAC, MG 27 II B1, vol. 2, 20 Oct. 1902, note on conversation between M into and Laurier.

65
PAC, MG 27 II Dl5, 5 Feb. 1897, Sifton to Borden.

66
Ibid., 24 July 1897, Sifton to Shaughnessy.

67
Ibid.

68
Ibid., 28 Feb. 1898, Sifton to McCreary.

69
Ibid., 18 Feb.’ 1897, Sifton to Paterson.

70
Ibid., 9 Sept. 1901, Sifton to Smith.

71
Ibid., 13 March 1897, Sifton to Burgess. 28 Ibid., 18 Aug. 1897, Sifton to Campbell.

72
Ibid., 24 Oct. 1898, Sifton to Willison.

73
Hall,
Clifford Sifton
, vol. 1, p. 57. 29 Ibid.

74
Ibid., pp. 215–16.