Winfield Burrows Sifton
Parents
| Father | Sir Clifford Sifton (10 March 1861 - 17 April 1929) |
| Mother | Lady Elizabeth Armanella Burrows (1862 - 19 February 1925) |
Personal Information
| Record Created: 10 June 2012; Last Edited: 20 November 2021 |
| Person ID | 3875 |
| Name | Winfield Burrows Sifton |
| Gender | Male |
| Born | 21 January 18901 |
| Married | 30 July 1913 in Milburn, Essex County, New Jersey to Jean Gazlay Kirwan (née Donaldson) 2, 3 |
| Divorced | 7 July 1919 in Canada from Jean Gazlay Sifton (née Donaldson) 4 |
| Died | 13 June 1928 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada5 |
| Buried | in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada5 |
Biography
Winfield Burrows Sifton was the second son of Sir Clifford Sifton. Winfield went to England during the First World War, initially to deal in war material. After the Armistice, he became involved with several companies bearing such unlikely names as the Anglo-Canadian Association of Roumanian Trade and the Venezuelan Estates & Oil Company, all of which failed. Often the failures were followed by lawsuits and the despatch of substantial cheques from the elder Sifton. Winfield also managed to interest Sir Clifford, who had great hopes for his son, in the projected Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal Company. The project, which would have involved the construction of a huge hydro-electric power and transportation complex, ultimately embroiled the Siftons in a decade of futile litigation and cost its investors their entire stake. Eventually, the chastened Winfield returned to Toronto, where he died in 1928 at the age of 38.6
Person/Family
| Spouse 1 |  Jean Gazlay Kirwan (née Donaldson) (daughter of Andrew Donaldson and Emma Jane Gazlay) |
| Born | 12 March 1893 in Nutley, Essex County, New Jersey |
| Married | 11 February 1910 in Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey to John Stanislaus Kirwan |
| Married | 30 July 1913 in Milburn, Essex County, New Jersey to Winfield Burrows Sifton |
| Married | 12 July 1919 in London, England to Captain John Victor Nash |
| Married | 1 February 1925 in Cairo, Egypt to Prince Mohammed Sabit Bey |
| Married | 15 October 1926 in Paris, France to Paul Dubonnet |
| Married | 27 May 1950 to Guy Douglas Bridge Puckle |
| Died | 9 February 1956 in Paris, France |
| Children | of Winfield Burrows Sifton and Jean Gazlay Kirwan (née Donaldson) : |
| 1. | Elizabeth Arma Burrows Sifton |
| Born | 2 May 1915 in London, England |
| Died | 24 February 1950 in New York |
Sources
- Clifford Sifton, Volume I, The Young Naploeon, 1861-1900, by D. J. Hall. The University of British Colombia, 1981. Available at Google Books.
- Marriage Announcement, New York Times, New York, New York, 1 August 1913, Jean Donaldson Kirwan and Winfield Burrows Sifton, married 30 July 1913 in Milburn, New Jersey. The article provides an interesting account of their secret wedding, and other biographical details.
- Gazlay History, written by Spencer G. Kuhn, a grandchild of Theodore Gazlay; undated. This is a typewritten re-compilation of the earlier Genealogy of the Gazlay Family, compiled by Theodore Gazlay in 1890, including the 1852 statement of the family history by Reverend Sayers Gazlay, an elder brother of Theodore. This document re-formats the information in the 1890 work. For example, facts originally shown in list form, such as birth and death dates, are incorporated in the narrative of this later work. Two post-1890 sections are unique to this document: one with additional details about Theodore Gazlay’s family, with dates as late as 1951; and another on the Donaldson family, featuring Jean Gazlay Donaldson and her six marriages, with several dates in 1965.
- Journal of the Senate of Canada, Volume 55, page 411-413, 7 July 1919, Royal Assent to the petition of Jean Donaldson Sifton to dissolve her marriage to Winfield Burrows Sifton [among other Bills].
- Find a Grave (website). Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Winfield B. Sifton, born January 1890; died 13 June 1928 in Toronto [from article].
- The Siftons, by Neil Forsythe, The Archivist, No. 13, appearing at Library and Archives Canada (website). This is a copy of an official work that is published by the Government of Canada. The reproduction has not been produced in affiliation with, or with the endorsement of the Government of Canada.