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23 giu 2019 · A Canadian law and justice icon was honoured Sunday in Orillia. Sir Sam Steele, who was born in Medonte and went to school in Orillia, was a a famous player in Canadian history, said Gerry McMillan, a chaplain with the RCMP. This year marked the 100th anniversary of Steele's death on Jan. 19, 1919. McMillan, a long-time Orillian, said it was ...
10 set 2014 · Sam Steele (Library and Archives Canada) Born in 1849 in Purbrook, Upper Canada, the son of a British naval hero, Sir Sam Steele was a legendary figure and easily the most famous Mountie ever.
15 mag 2013 · Sam Steele and the Northwest Rebellion. : In the spring of 1885, it appeared that war was about to set the Canadian West aflame. Louis Riel had established a Metis provisional government at Batoche, and the Cree, led by war chief Wandering Spirit, had killed settlers, taken hostages and forced the capitulation of Fort Pitt.
22 gen 2019 · Later in life, Steele made the North-West Mounted Police famous around the world, especially for his effective and orderly oversight of the Klondike Gold Rush of the late 1890s. By 1898 he commanded the police force in the entire Yukon region. In the end it was diabetes that finally defeated Steele at the age of 70, a disease he denied having ...
With roots in Vancouver’s queer underground, Sam Steele has become a fixture in Vancouver in recent years having held multiple residencies at major venues across the city and regularly serving up marathon six-hour sets marked by punchy rhythms, rolling basslines, and soulful, euphoric vocals drawn from the classics - a signature sound that he calls BIG GAY HOUSE.
7 giu 2021 · Sam Steele, North-West Mounted Police, Biography, Canadian History, Klondike gold rush, South African War, South African Constabulary, First World War Abstract. Sam Steele: A Biography. By Rod Macleod. University of Alberta Press, 2019. 407 pages.
12 ott 2010 · I n 1899, residents of Canada’s most northerly town could set their watches by Sam Steele as he made his rounds of Dawson City in the dim winter light. Steele, the North-West Mounted Police superintendent, described his rigid routine in a letter dated February 25 to his wife, Marie, in Montreal: “Up at 7, walk one mile to the town station, enquire if anything had transpired in the night.
