All Shergill families used to bring their newly wedded couples to pray here and dig up soil from ground as ritual.
Afterwards he wed Indira Shergill, the sister of artist Amrita Shergill, who bore him a son, Vivan, who is himself an artist.
Shariff was elected to his first term in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a hotly contested by-election in Calgary McCall on April 20, 1995 defeating Liberal Jeet Shergill and future New Democratic Party president Anne McGrath by just a few hundred votes.