Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele was a distinguished Canadian soldier and police official. He was an officer in the early days of the North-West Mounted Police and was later head of the Yukon detachment during the Klondike Gold Rush, and commanding officer of Strathcona's Horse during the Boer War.Major General Sir Samuel Benfield Steele was a distinguished Canadian soldier and police official. He was an officer in the early days of the North-West Mounted Police and was later head of the Yukon detachment during the Klondike Gold Rush, and commanding officer of Strathcona's Horse during the Boer War....more