Sam Steele

The General - major Sir Samuel Benfield Steele , CB, KCMG, MVO (January 5th 1849 – January 30th 1919) was a soldier distinguished and a famous member from the royal Gendarmerie of Canada ( North-West Mounted Police ).

Biography

Youth

Engagement in the assembled Police force

The War of Boers

Sam Steele in the literature

Hector Adair, a character of the novel Spirit-of-Iron (1923), written by the son of Steele, Harwood Steele, was inspired by the life of the famous Mountie . The novel comprising a note of the author in introduction specifying that: " Hector Adair is supposed to represent the ideal officer of Mounted Police in particular and the Britannique officer in general. It should be attached to no historical figure of this Force."

In the novel Alaska of James Michener, the " Major Sam Steele" is the representative of the assembled Police force. Michener recognizes to him the statute of historical figure in a preliminary note, but the veracity of some of its actions is not easily verifiable.

Steele is also described in the cartoon Walt Disney of Don Rosa, entitled the Two Hearts of Yukon, of the Youth of Picsou .

In the televised series Due South , " North'" (Season 2, episode 123 - 1995), Fraser refers to Sam Steele as being very proud never to have had to make use of its weapon whereas it patrolled in the Territoires of the North-West.

Others

The Mount Steele, fifth plus high summit of the Canada and tenth of North America was named in its honor.

External bonds

Biography on the '' Dictionary off Canadian Biography Online ''
'' History Comes Alive '' biography of Steele
Biography of Sam Steele on Histori.ca
Bookstore and Archives Canada
Steele among freemasons

References

Pierre Berton, The Wild Frontier, More Bruise from the Remarkable Past (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1978), chapter 3.
Brian Busby, Character Shares: Who' S Really Who in CanLit (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2003), p. 8-9, 54-55.
R.C. Macleod, " Steele, Sir Samuel Benfield" , in The Canadian Encyclopedia: Year 2000 Edition , ED. James H. Marsh (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999), p. 2251.
Samuel Benfield Steele, Forty Years in Canada: Reminiscences off the Great North-West, with Nap Account off His Service in South Africa. (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1914; Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972; Toronto: Adhesives, 1973; Toronto: Prospero, 2000).
Robert Stewart Sam Steele, Lion off the Frontier (Regina: Centax, 1999).
" Steele, Sir Samuel Benfield" , in The Macmillan Dictionary off Canadian Biography (4th edition) , ED. W. Stewart Wallace (Toronto: Macmillan, 1978). p. 792.

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