How did sam steele die
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New biography reveals private life of Sam Steele
Pick any major event in the decades following Confederation and chances are Sam Steele, the legendary founder of the North-West Mounted Police, was there, imposing order on the Klondike Gold Rush, supervising the building of the CPR, witnessing the signing of treaties on the Prairies and helping suppress Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion.
While Steele's professional life has been well documented-partly because he published his memoirs, Forty Years in Canada, in 1914-a new book by historian and University of Alberta professor emeritus Rod Macleod reveals the private side of Steele's life.
In Sam Steele: A Biography, Macleod writes that "it would be easy, and totally misleading, to get the impression that family life was unimportant to him. On the contrary, from his marriage until the end of his life, every major decision he made about his career revolved around their interests."
Macleod uncovered that detail, along with many others, after spending almost 10 years of painstaking research poring over a mammoth collection of Stee
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STEELE, Sir SAMUEL BENFIELD, NWMP officer and army officer; b. 5 Jan. 1848 in Medonte Township, Upper Canada, son of Elmes Yelverton Steele* and Anne MacIan Macdonald; m. 15 Jan. 1890 Marie Elizabeth Harwood in Vaudreuil, Que., and they had two daughters and a son; d. 30 Jan. 1919 in Putney (London), England.
Sam Steele was the quintessential Canadian man of action in the Victorian era. Physically strong and courageous, he personified the heroic qualities of the early North-West Mounted Police. He even looked the part to perfection: tall, barrel-chested, and handsome, inspiring confidence in men and admiration in women. No human, of course, could be as spotless as Steele appeared on the surface. His occasional drinking bouts were well known among his contemporaries, though he was certainly not an alcoholic. Steele was also very ambitious, and he had, in full measure, the prevailing Anglo-Saxon racist views of the period.
At the same time, Steele had important attributes that he and his contemporaries were inclined to ignore because they were
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Sam Steele
Canadian soldier and police official
For the hockey player born 1998, see Sam Steel. For the sportscaster Samantha Steele, see Samantha Ponder.
Major-generalSir Samuel Benfield SteeleKCMG CB MVO (5 January 1848 – 30 January 1919) was a Canadian soldier and policeman. He was an officer of the North-West Mounted Police, head of the Yukon detachment during the Klondike Gold Rush, and commanding officer of Strathcona's Horse during the Boer War.
Early life
Born into a military family at Medonte Township, Province of Canada (now Ontario), he was the son of Royal Navy Captain Elmes Yelverton Steele, a veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, and one of six brothers to have served in the British Armed Forces. His mother (his father's second wife), Anne Macdonald, was the youngest daughter of Neil Maclain MacDonald of Ardnamurchan, a native of Islay. Neil MacDonald was a grandson of Captain Godfrey MacNeil of Barra, and a nephew of Colonel Donald MacNeil.[1] Steele was named for his father's uncle, Colonel Samuel Steele, who served in Quebec under Lor
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