Sam Steele Research Paper

Have you ever thought about what it really means to be a Canadian? What you need to do to even consider yourself to be a part of this country? I believe that Sam Steele could be considered a Canadian. There are many things that he did that made him canadian but the main reason for that is that he was the one who actually fought for Canada.

One of the reasons why he was a good canadian is because the government put him in charge of a lot of important things. When they discovered gold in the Klondike, Canada needed someone to control the border from thousands of american miners. They also needed someone to hold all the Canadian territory. The person they put in charge of all of that was Sam Steele. This put him in charge of the B.C., Alaska border. He patrolled the the trails of the St. Elias Mountain during the harsh winter months. With parties of Mounted Policemen, he set up border posts flying
In the spring, he moved down to Lake Bennett, a tent city of more than 10,000 people. Here, prospectors saw two sides of Steele. He was known to lend his own money to men down on their luck, and to write personal letters to the families of those who died in the territory. But he could also be tough. One American caught with marked cards protested that he had rights as a U.S. citizen. Steele confiscated all of his goods and had a Mountie escort him on the 50 km. climb to the border. Another piece of evidence that showed that When Steele tried to leave quietly in September 1899, the prospectors, gamblers, ragtime piano-players, and dancehall girls of Dawson poured down to the wharf to give Steele "such an ovation and send-off as no man has ever received from the Klondike gold-seekers," in the words of a local newspaper. They cheered Sam Steele until his steamboat was out of sight. I believe that this makes him a canadian because the canadian people actually appreciate his