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Clifford Sifton Case Study

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Clifford Sifton 's plan for populating Canada West was to organize immigrations campaigns in many different European languages, this strategy was to draw attention to the settlers he was looking for. Also to attract the settles, the government told them about "The Last Best West" which included free land, rich soil, government assistance to get started, a healthy climate, and freedom from oppression for themselves and their families. His planned worked because the settlers wanted to get good land and shelter also since Clifford Sifton wanted to populate canada west, he offered his land and later then canada west started to populate.

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