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men in sheepskin coats Hist. 
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.
See also: Galician Sifton's Sheepskins
- 1922 (1965) ["When I speak of quality I have in mind, I think, something that is quite different from what is in the mind of the average writer or speaker upon the question of immigration. 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 children, is good quality." Sir Clifford Sifton, speech to Toronto Board of Trade, March 1922.]
- 1965 [Caption] Thousands will make a stake, and head east again. But the men in sheepskin coats will stick and build the west.
- 1922 (1965) ["When I speak of quality I have in mind, I think, something that is quite different from what is in the mind of the average writer or speaker upon the question of immigration. 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 children, is good quality." Sir Clifford Sifton, speech to Toronto Board of Trade, March 1922.]