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Jan 22, 2008 · Last Edited February 5, 2019. Sir Samuel Benfield Steele, CB, KCMG, mounted policeman, soldier (born 5 January 1848 in Medonte, Canada West; died 30 January 1919 in London, England). As a member of the North-West Mounted Police, Steele was an important participant in the signing of Treaty 6 and Treaty 7, the construction of the Canadian Pacific ...
Sam Steele. Major-general Sir Samuel Benfield Steele KCMG 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.
Jun 12, 2006 · Samuel Benfield Steele was born on January 5, 1851, at Purbrook, near Orillia, Upper Canada (later Ontario), the son of Royal Navy Captain Elmes Steele and Anne Macdonald. Men of action had run through the Steele clan like water down Niagara Falls — young Sam’s predecessors had fought on the Plains of Abraham before Quebec in 1759, at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and at Waterloo in 1815.
Jan 24, 2019 · Sam Steele was knighted on January 1, 1918 for his exceptional service. In the many honours bestowed upon him, he was made Member of the Victorian Order, Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Sam retired from his British commission on July 1, 1918.
Jan 6, 2017 · By the outbreak of the war, Steele was 63 years old and a veteran of the Boer War, as well as one of the leading figures in the development of a Western Canadian militia. He was put forward for Canadian divisional command by Sir Sam Hughes in December 1914, after the minister professed himself to be impressed by Steele’s organisation of over ...
Samuel Benfield Steele, North West Mounted Policeman extra-ordinaire was again back in Calgary. He was the epitome of a policeman, believing fanatically in 'image," and everything he did oozed it. The way he walked, sat on a horse, shot a gun, or even rested in a chair had the mark of a British military officer and the mould for a North West Mounted Policeman.
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Rod Macleod’s biography of famed North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) officer and military leader Sir Sam Steele is a result of the $1.8 million purchase of the Sir Samuel Steele Collection by the University of Alberta in 2008.1 Some 115 linear feet of archival material was transferred to the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta. This material, Macleod notes in the ...
