 Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton , PC ( UK ) , PC ( Can ) , KC ( October 26 , 1858 – January 21 , 1921 ) , was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 . He became a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter . Born in Ontario , he grew up there and in Winnipeg , where he became a lawyer . He subsequently practised law with his brother Clifford Sifton in Brandon , Manitoba , where he was also active in municipal politics . He moved west to Prince Albert in 1885 and to Calgary in 1889 . There he was elected to the 4th and 5th North @-@ West Legislative Assemblies ; he later served as a minister in the government of Premier Frederick W. A. G. Haultain . In 1903 , the federal government , at the instigation of his brother who was now one of its ministers , made Arthur Sifton the Chief Justice of the Northwest Territories . When Alberta was created out of a portion of the Northwest Territories in 1905 , Sifton became its first chief justice . 
