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	Sam Steele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steele and his force made the Klondike Gold Rush into one of the most orderly events of its kind in history and made NWMP famous around the world, which ensured its survival at a critical time when the force's dissolution was being debated in parliament.
		By July of 1898, Steele commanded all NWMP in the Yukon area, and was a member of the territorial council.
		Steele, however, disliked greatly what he was ordered to do by the British, which included burning towns and moving the populace to concentration camps.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sam_Steele (1366 words)

	Sam Steele Days.org - Who was Sam Steele?
		Steele was born in Purbrook, Ontario, in 1849, into a family with a strong tradition of military service.
		Sam Steele proved to be a great asset on that march due to his strength, character, determination and commitment to getting the job done.
		Steele was notified in the early summer of 1887 to be prepared to march to Kootenay, British Columbia with “D” Division.
	www.samsteeledays.org /samsteele.php (693 words)

	North-West Mounted Police Inspector Sam Steele
		Steele was still only 22, and so wiry that he wore a sash under his jacket to add some manly bulk to his appearance, but he already had a solid military record under his belt.
		Steele’s A Troop, along with B and C troops, was rushed off by steamer from Toronto through the Great Lakes, and then marched 450 miles farther west to Lower Fort Garry (20 miles downriver from Winnipeg), where their personnel were sworn in on November 3, 1873.
		Steele’s remedy for the frequent complaints of saddle sores was to issue salt to rub into the injured party’s wounds to form calluses.
	www.thehistorynet.com /we/blmountiesteele (1297 words)

	Steele, Sir Samuel Benfield
		Steele, Sir Samuel Benfield, mounted policeman, soldier (b at Purbrook, Canada W 5 Jan 1849; d at London, Eng 30 Jan 1919).
		Steele joined the militia in 1866 during the FENIAN troubles, was a private in the Red River Expedition (1870), joined the Permanent Force Artillery in 1871 and, in 1873, became a sergeant major in the newly created NWMP.
		Steele was given command of Lord Strathcona's Horse in the SOUTH AFRICAN WAR, and in 1915 he commanded the second Canadian contingent to be sent overseas.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0007685 (212 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		The action was pure Sam Steele, though it should be noted that major discrepancies exist between the official reports he wrote at the time of the strike and his published reminiscences many years later.
		When Steele was transferred out of Dawson in September 1899, reputedly for resisting the partisan system of patronage sanctioned by Sifton, virtually the entire population turned out to cheer him and the miners presented him with a bag of gold-dust.
		Steele immediately volunteered, went on leave from the force, and was swept up in the confusion that marked Canada’s decision to participate in the conflict.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=41844 (4389 words)

	Sam Steele - TheBestLinks.com - January 30, January 5, Louis Riel, Metis, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		This action won Steele great acclaim in the newspapers of the United States and was the beginning of his role as a public figure.
		Steele spent the next ten years assigned to Fort McLeod, and at age 41 married Maria Harwood, eventually the couple had three children.
		Steele was knighted in 1918 and was made a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, and Member of the Royal Victorian Order.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Sam_Steele.html (538 words)

	British Empire: Armed Forces: Units: Lord Strathcona's Horse
		Steele was given the rank of Staff Constable, equivalent to a Sergeant-major and went to Lower Fort Gary where he instructed recruits in riding and horse breaking.
		Steele was part of the force that fought the Metis in the 1885 Rebellion.
		Steele brought 1200 Canadians with him and hoped to keep them in his Division of the SAC but he was overruled and they were distributed around the other divisions.
	www.britishempire.co.uk /forces/armyunits/canadiancavalry/strathsteele.htm (1143 words)

	Sam Steele
		Steele arrived in the American port of Skagway, Alaska in February 1898.
		Steele confiscated all of his goods and had a Mountie escort him on the 50 km.
		When Steele tried to leave quietly in September 1899, the prospectors, gamblers, ragtime piano-players, and dancehall girls of Dawson poured down to the wharf to give Steele "such an ovation and send-off as no man has ever received from the Klondike gold-seekers," in the words of a local newspaper.
	www.histori.ca /minutes/minute.do?id=10187 (588 words)

	Sam Benfield Steele
		During the 1880s, as the Canadian Pacific Railway was being built across the prairies to the Pacific coast, Sam Steele was in charge of policing the land and people along the rail line, a very difficult task.
		In 1887, Steele was promoted to Superintendent, and charged with the task of restoring order in the Kootenay, where there were a great number of problems due to tensions between the native and white people.
		In 1898, Steele was ordered to go north to the Yukon, to be in charge of maintaining law and order among the thousands of people who came to the area as part of the gold rush.
	www.rcmp.ca /history/sam_steele_e.htm (471 words)

	Major Sam Steele
		Sam Steele's Journal - this journal tells the story of the NWMP trek west in 1874.
		Steele Narrows: The last shots of the rebellion were fired on June 3 at Loon Lake, 40 km north of Frenchman Butte, where a few mounted men under NWMP Superintendant Sam* STEELE skirmished with the retreating Frog Lake Cree.
		On the morning of June 2,1885 Sam Steele, commander of an elite portion of the Alberta Field Force known as Steele's Scouts, looked down on the narrows from an open ridge about two km south.
	members.shaw.ca /bcsk/peoplef/pages/Sam_Steele.htm (1114 words)

	Sam Steele
		Samuel Benfield Steele was born on January 5, 1849,), in Medonte Township, Canada West, the son of Elmes and Anne Steele.
		After his father died, Steele went to live with his brother, and later joined the militia, in 1966, during the Fenian troubles and was a private in the Red River Expedition of 1870.
		Steele was successful in the NWMP and was promoted many times.
	goofy313g.free.fr /calisota_online/exist/steele.html (493 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		On arrival in Calgary, Steele was appointed to command the mounted troops and scouts of Major-General Thomas Bland Strange*’s Alberta Field Force.
		Steele released the native and seems to have persuaded Kutenai chief Isadore* of the futility of armed resistance.
		The NWMP was at its maximum strength, the native population was quiet, and the massive influx of settlers to the prairies was yet to come.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41844 (4389 words)

	VDARE.com: 11/20/03 - Shelby Steele Says It Out Loud: Whites Not Equal In The New America
		Steele's pontification is not what it said about him or the flag but what it says about white people.
		Steel's nakedly anti-white claim that whites illustrate for all time an "extraordinary evil" is not only flapdoodle but in fact illustrates his point—white racial identity, let alone pride, is forbidden.
		Steele seems to—that whites are evil and other races aren't, then not to worry.
	www.vdare.com /francis/shelby_steele.htm (834 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - South African War - Lieutenant-Colonel Sam Steele
		Lieutenant-Colonel Sam Steele, Commanding Officer of Strathcona’s Horse in South Africa, April 1900 — January 1901, and of "B" Division, South African Constabulary, April 1901 — April 1906.
		Steele took command of Strathcona's Horse, the mounted infantry unit raised and paid for by Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal, Canada's High Commissioner in Great Britain.
		Steele was a charismatic, opinionated, hard-living individual who personified the popular image in the Victorian era of the rugged, larger-than-life frontiersman, with all his virtues and vices.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/boer/samsteele_e.html (333 words)

	The Mounted Police and Prairie Society, 1873-1919. by Sam Steele (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Sam Steele: Lion of the Frontier, a reprinted tale of the exploits of the legendary Mountie by Robert Stewart, remains much as it was when it was first published in 1979: a well-written, fast-paced account of Steele's life.
		Interestingly, both Sam Steele and Red Coats stray little from an assumption dominant in both the 1973 and 1998-9 public celebrations of the force's history: the continuity between the NWMP and the RCMP.
		From Sam Steele we see not simply Steele's heroic and successful exploits that brought the force fame and respect, but also the increased willingness that emerged in the 1970s to explore the disruptions and contradictions in the force's past.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/chr/814/rcmp3.html (1528 words)

	Session Summary #13 -- "Tall Tales"
		Sam Steele is aghast at the desecration of the museum, but opts to keep quiet about this, since it's better than the Posse running around with no pants on.
		Sam Steele asks about the spirit that is pursuing Blue-Feather, and Black-Horn indicates that this is a corrupted spirit as well, and offers that he will try to find a way to defeat this enemy, but he may only do so once he is able to enter the Hunting Grounds.
		Sam Steele and Brother Joy hold a burial ceremony for the remains of Shaman Black-Horn out in the woods, and then the Posse heads back to the town of Blackbird.
	greywolf.critter.net /deadlands/summaries/session13.htm (2702 words)

	Interim Pastor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Sam graduated from Sulfur Springs High School, achieved a B.A. in Art and Speech from Austin College and a Master of Divinity from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
		Sam was ordained in 1985 and has served churches in Broken Bow and El Reno, Oklahoma, Perryton and Spearman, Texas (yoked parish), Bay City, Texas and College Station, Texas.
		Sam has served numerous weekends as spiritual advisor in Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado for the Presbyterian Cursillo and served on National Council for the Presbyterian Fourth Day Movement.
	www.livingston.net /fpclivtx/pastor.htm (137 words)

	Windswept Farm Stallion Profile: Sam Steele
		Sam Steele is the youngest of Windswept Farm's four Hanoverian stallions.
		Sam's dam, SPS Eskalade, was a daughter of Eklatant, a talented son of the thoroughbred Ecuador xx.
		A chestnut colt, (Sam Steele - Willa) was selected by the AHS inspection jury as the top foal of those presented at the annual inspection.
	www.windsweptfarm.com /samsteele.htm (220 words)

	Steele - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Steele is the name of several communities and counties in the United States:
		Steele Prize, awards given by the American Mathematical Society
		Sam Steele (1849 - 1919), Canadian military and law enforcement officer; namesake of Mount Steele
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Steele (229 words)

	North-West Mounted Police - A Tradition in Scarlet - History of Major Posts
		Superintendent Samuel Benfield Steele with three officers and 75 men arrived in the summer of 1887 and built Kootenay Post on the high bank of the Kootenay River.
		Steele began to investigate the grievances, starting with the murder of two miners and the arrest of two Native suspects.
		This judgment broke the tension, and a peace between the Ktunaxa and the settlers was gradually stitched together.
	www.virtualmuseum.ca /Exhibitions/Police/eng_html/4.2_historyofmajor_steele.html (206 words)

	Fort Steele Heritage Town - Ring the Anvil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Sam Steele and his men were to investigate and resolve the conflicts between the Ktunaxa People and the settlers.
		Sam Steele had been the third person to sign up when the N.W.M.P. were formed in 1873 by Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald.
		Sam Steele: Lion of the Frontier, Stewart, Robert, 1979.
	www.fortsteele.bc.ca /bookings/education/mountielife.asp (2799 words)

	Northwest Mounted Police stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		As soon as Sam Steele decided upon the site the 75 non commissioned officers and constables began to construct buildings such as barracks, officers quarters and stables.
		D division was responsible to regularly monitor the trail running through the Rocky Mountain Trench because it was travelled by vagrants, drifters, miners, and outlaws from the United States.
		Sam Steele is widely recognized as the single greatest figure in the history of Canadian police.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /steele/nwmp/nwmphome.htm (169 words)

	Crowsnest Highway
		The other campground in the area is the Original Fort Steele Campground which is cozied into a wooded little ravine cut into the southern escarpment of the Kootenay River.
		As he was preparing to depart on his mission, on May 20th Herchmer sent a message to Superintendent Steele at Fort Macleod ordering him to march his 75-man strong “D” Division cross-country to the CPR Mainline and catch a train to Golden.
		Fort Steele was isolated economically, and though many people left, others hung on in hopes that the CPR would connect their community to the B.C. Southern mainline as promised.
	www.crowsnest-highway.ca /cgi-bin/citypage.pl?city=FORT_STEELE (9440 words)

	Who was Sam Steele?
		I discovered that Sam Steele has kept quite a name for himself - for a person who was not in the area very long.
		Sam Steele was an RCMP officer from Ontario who was sent to the Kootenays in 1887 with 3 officers and 75 men, to form the North West Mountain Police division at what was then, Galbraith Ferry.
		Sam Steele Days in Cranbrook this year take place from June 13th to June 16th with the annual parade taking place on Saturday June 15th.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/bc_beautiful_interior/92087 (433 words)

	Canadian Geographic Travel&Adventure Guide
		When the ice went out at the end of May, Steele's attention shifted to the thousands of men preparing to launch boats from Bennett Lake down the Yukon River to Dawson — 650 kilometres away — to stake their claims.
		There are hundreds of crosscountry ski trails in the Yukon, but to experience Sam Steele country, try the trails skirting the basalt cliffs of Miles Canyon in Whitehorse or ski into the Chilkoot Trail from the South Klondike Highway.
		Steele brought the same shrewd common sense to his short and occasionally unorthodox stint in the Yukon.
	www.canadiangeographic.ca /wtg2006/feature_yukon.asp (872 words)

	The RCMP Veterans Association Online Store: Your source for RCMP related memorabilia.
		Sam Steele was known as the 'Lion Of The Frontier' a Yukon hero and monumental member of the original North-West Mounted Police.
		Steele trained men and established posts in a land alive with danger.
		Steele's bravery, endurance and sense of fair play was legend.
	www.mountiestore.com /products/item65.htm (166 words)

	BRmovie.com: Destined to Fail - fan fiction
		Sam hobbled down off the podium, and the room flashed with the cameras of the journalists.
		Standing by the big table with cigarettes and cups of coffee were Steele and Holden.
		Sam turned to the silent Holden and Steele.
	www.brmovie.com /Fiction/DtF-08.htm (442 words)

	Welcome to Fort Steele 1864 to 1898 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Fort Steele became a settlement in 1864 during the Kootenay Gold Rush.
		By browsing through stories and viewing photographs of the period between 1864-1898, you will experience life in Fort Steele through the eyes of the early white settlers, the Ktunaxa people and the North West Mounted Police.
		We encourage you to click on the icons above and follow the digital storytelling by clicking the photographs and navigational aids on the bottom of the pages.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /steele/arrive.htm (123 words)

	Fort Steele Fort Steele, British Columbia (Cities)
		Fort Steele originated as a fur trading post and became a Kootenay River crossing known as Galbraith's Ferry.
		Due to disputes between the Kootenay Indians and settlers, the Northwest Mounted Police, led by Sam Steele, came here to settle the disputes and erected a fort and barracks.
		In 1898 the Crowsnest Pass Railway was diverted to Cranbrook, two sternwheelers were wrecked, and the town was a dying one by 1904.
	www.ohwy.com /bc/f/fortstee.htm (185 words)

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