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Forty years in Canada: Reminiscences of the great North-West; with some account of his service in South Africa

Steele, Samuel Benfield (Sir): 1849-1919. Accompanied Red River expedition, 1870; joined NWMP, 1873; rose to rank of inspector; in Saskatchewan Rebellion commanded the cavalry in Strange's column, and later commanded the column which pursued Big Bear's band; during Yukon gold rush in command of the police there, 1898-1899; commanded Strathcona Horse in South African war; commanded 2nd Canadian Division in First World War; father of Harwood Elmes Robert Steele. // Colmer, Joseph Grose: 1856-1937. Canadian civil servant attached for many years to the office of the High Commissioner in London ( Who was who , 1929-1940). // Also published, autograph edition, Winnipeg: R. Lang, 1915 (xvii, 428p.); Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1915 (xvii, 428p.); London: Herbert Jenkins, 1915 (xvii, 428p.); New York: Dodd, Mead, 1915 (xvii, 428p.); Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1918 (xvii, 428p.); new and revised edition, London: J. Murray, 1918 (324p.); Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1972 (xix, 428p.); facsimile reprint, Toronto: Coles Pub. Co., 1973; facsimile reprint, Toronto: Prospero Books, 2000 (xvii, 428p.). A valuable personal account by an original member of the North Wes

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