Judges in Albert

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Arthur Sifton, John Robert Boyle, Horace Harvey, Charles Richmond Mitchell, Charles Stuart, Milt Harradence, Ambrose Bury, Cam Kirby, William R. Howson, James Hyndman, Albert Ewing, Allan Wachowich, Alexander McGillivray, William L. Walsh, John McClung, William Carlos Ives, Eugene Creighton, David Lynch Scott, Nicholas Beck, William Stevenson, John C. Major, Constance Hunt, Dick Fowler, Alfred Henry Clarke, Lucien Dubuc, Catherine Fraser, Maitland Stewart McCarthy, Allen Sulatycky, Alice Jamieson, William A. McGillivray, John Reilly, Patrick Morgan Mahoney, Anne Russell, Valentine Milvain, William J. Haddad. Excerpt: Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC (October 26, 1858 - January 21, 1921) was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter. Born in Ontario, he grew up there and in Winnipeg, where he became a lawyer. He subsequently practiced law with his brother Clifford Sifton in Brandon, Manitoba, where he was also active in municipal politics. He moved west to Prince Albert in 1885 and to Calgary in 1889. There he was elected to the 4th and 5th North-West Legislative Assemblies; he later served as a minister in the government of Premier Frederick W. A. G. Haultain. In 1903, the federal government, at the instigation of his brother who was now one of its ministers, made Arthur Sifton the Chief Justice of the Northwest Territories. When Alberta was created out of a portion of the Northwest Territories in 1905, Sifton became its first chief justice. In 1910, the government of Alberta Premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford was embroiled in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal. The Liberal Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, George Bulyea, determined that for the sake of the Liberal Party of Alberta Rutherford had to ...