1853; and held the
same office, 1857-1858; chief commissioner of public works, 1858;
attorney-general, 1862-1863. In the latter year appointed a judge of the
Superior Court, retiring 1887. =Index=: =E= Declines seat in
Hincks-Morin ministry, 126; proposes secularization of Clergy Reserves,
126-127; elected Speaker, 1854, 135-136. =C= A follower of Cartier, 24;
forms Macdonald-Sicotte administration, 24. =Md= Leader of moderate
Reformers, forms ministry with Sandfield Macdonald, 89. =Bib.=: Rose,
_Cyc. Can. Biog._; Dent, _Last Forty Years_.

=Sifton, Arthur L.= (1858- ). Educated at Victoria University; called to
the bar, 1883. Removed to the North-West Territories and elected to the
Legislature, 1891; held office as treasurer and commissioner of public
works; appointed chief-justice of the North-West Territories;
chief-justice of Alberta, 1905; premier of Alberta, 1910. =Bib.=:
_Canadian Who's Who_.

=Sifton, Clifford= (1861- ). Educated at Victoria University. Removed to
Manitoba and called to the bar of that province, 1882. Elected to the
Manitoba Assembly, 1888; attorney-general and minister of education,
1891; elected to the House of Commons for Brandon, 1896; minister of the
interior in the Laurier administration, 1896; resigned, 1905; agent of
British government before Alaska Boundary Commission, 1903; chairman of
Dominion Commission on the Conservation of Natural Resources, 1909.
=Bib.=: Morgan, _Can. Men_; _Canadian Who's Who_.

=Sillery.= Village on the north side of the St. Lawrence, four miles
above Quebec. It was originally founded by Noel Brulart de Sillery in
1637 as a settlement for Christian Indians. =Index=: =WM= Vaudreuil
orders fifty men to be posted at, 162; post at, captured, 183. =L=
Settlement of Christian Indians at, 74. =Bib.=: Charlevoix, _History of
New France_; Lovell, _Gazetteer of Canada_.

=Simcoe.= A lake situated between Lake Ontario and Georgian Bay; named
after Governor Simcoe's father. It was discovered by Champlain in 1615,
and was within the field of the famous Huron Mission of the Jesuit
fathers. La Salle crossed the lake in 1680, on his way west to the
Mississippi; and the following year dated one of his letters from the
long portage between Toronto and Simcoe. =Index=: =S= Formerly Lac aux
Claies, 207; present name given by Simcoe, 207.

=Simcoe, Frank.= =S= Son of Governor Simcoe, killed in storming of
Badajoz, 179, 222.

=Simcoe, John= (1714-1759). Entered the navy and p