Sam Steele : An Officer and a Gentleman
by
Norman Leach
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1459728270
ISBN-13
9781459728271
Publisher
Dundurn Group Ltd
Imprint
Dundurn Group Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 11th, 2015
Print length
152 Pages
Weight
297 grams
Dimensions
25.40 x 17.70 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Biography: historical, political & militaryMilitary history
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From humble beginnings in what is now Bracebridge, Ontario, to his knighthood in England two years before his death in 1919, Sam 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.
A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER
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 Canadas 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.
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 Canadas 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.
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