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Arthur Sifton was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court of the new province of Alberta (1907) and its premier from 1910 to 1917.
Born in 1858 in Arva, Middlesex County, Canada West (Ontario), he was the eldest son of John Sifton and Kate Watkins. His family moved to Manitoba in 1875. He attended Victoria College in Cobourg, Ontario, with his younger brother Clifford and later set up a law practice with him in Brandon, Manitoba. He served as an alderman on Brandon's first city council in 1882 and 1883.
In 1882 he married Mary Deering; they had one daughter and one son.
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