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Sifton's Sheepskins 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 men in sheepskin coats
- 1900 (1965) [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.
- 1900 (1965) [Peasants in sheepskin coats. Phrase used by Conservative Party speakers, election November 1900; a reference to the type of immigrants preferred by Clifford Sifton.]