Dafoe Sifton Correspondence

Cook, Ramsay. Editor

Winnipeg, 1966


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Hardcover with dust jacket, 310 pages, 6x9.25 in, [15.5x23.5 cm]. Volume II of the Manitoba Record Society Publications. Seven Hundred and Fifty of these volumes have been printed - the present volume being No. 611.

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Ownership inscription neatly stamped on the blank front endpaper, and the bottom margin of page 5; text block slightly age tanned. Adhesive used to secure the Brodart-style jacket covering has bled through to the interior of the dust jacket, with offsetting visible to the front and rear panels.

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John W. Dafoe (1866-1944), Clifford Sifton (1861-1929) Clifford Sifton was the owner of the Manitoba Free Press, John W. Dafoe was employed by Sifton as the Editor, of the newspaper.

This edited volume brings together the correspondence exchanged between John W. Dafoe and Clifford Sifton during the early decades of the twentieth century. In Dafoe–Sifton Correspondence, Ramsay Cook presents letters that comment on political events, public figures, and policy debates of the 1920s, offering insight into contemporary federal and provincial affairs from the perspectives of two influential participants.

The collection documents their views on party politics, constitutional questions, and personal relationships within Canadian public life.