Biography of 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.

Biography of sam steele

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]