Bibliograph

Sam Steele, an officer and a gentleman, Norman S. Leach

Type

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Sam Steele, an officer and a gentleman, Norman S. Leach

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sam Steele

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Norman S. Leach

Sub title

an officer and a gentleman

Summary

Had there been no Sam Steele, it has been observed, Hollywood would have had to invent him. Born into the comparative stability of the Victorian era's Pax Britannica, Steele lived to witness the postwar turmoil of the Lost Generation. From humble beginnings in what is now Bracebridge, Ontario, to his knighthood in England two years before his death in 1919, Steele's life epitomized the themes of personal adventure, service to crown and country, and the zeal for modernization and social order that characterized nineteenth-century Canada within the British Empire. Steele's long and storied career threaded through many pivotal moments in Canada's settlement and development history: the Fenian raids, the expansion of law and order (on horseback and sporting red serge) across the North-West Territories, the exile of Sitting Bull into Canada, the construction of the national railway that welded together the nation, Riel's Rebellion, the Klondike Gold Rush and opening of the North, the Boer War, and the Canada's coming of age during the First World War

Target audience

adult

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