Forty years in Canada : reminiscences of the great North-west, with some account of his service in South Africa Cover Image

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Forty years in Canada : reminiscences of the great North-west, with some account of his service in South Africa / by Colonel S. B. Steele ... late of the N.W.M. police ... ed. by Mollie Glenn Niblett, with an introduction by J. G. Colmer ... & 17 plates.

Physical Description: 428 pages : illustrations, portrait, plates ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Coles, 1973.
Producer: New York : Dodd, Mead &amp; Company, 1915.
Copyright: &copy;1973.

Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919 (author.). Niblett, Mollie Glenn, (editor.). Colmer, Joseph G. (Joseph Grose), 1856-1937 (author of the introduction.).

Summary:

The author, one of the original members of the North-West Mounted Police, was appointed to take charge of a detachment detailed for duty along the C.P.R. construction line in British Columbia. He was also responsible for building a post in the Kootenays in 1887, and was later in command of the Force in the Yukon and British Columbia during the Klondike gold rush. The book briefly covers these activities.