Add this copy of Forty Years in Canada Reminiscences of the Great North to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by Ainsworth Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sumas, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1972 by McGraw-Hill Ryerson.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0070774803. Dust jacket heavily chipped with tears top spine, some creasing, spine faded. Some erasure top corner front free end paper.; A tight solid book. DJ in Mylar. This is a facsimile edition of the 1915 hardcover published by McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart in Canada and Herbert Jenkins in Britain.; The Ryerson archive series; B&W Photographs; 1.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 Inches; 428 pages; "Samuel Benfield Steele was born Orillia, Ontario, in 1851. Orphaned in his early teens. he joined the Canadian Militia, fought against the Fenians, and was on the Red River Expedition against Louis Riel's Metis. He joined the new North-West Mounted Police and took part in the epic march west to Fort Edmonton. In his career with the NWMP he was involved in many of the historic episodes of the Canadian West-the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the North-West Rebellion of 1885, the Gold Rush of 1898...From 1899 to 1901 he fought in the South African War and spent the next five years in the South African Constabulary, returnining to Canada in 1907 (where this autobiography ends). (jacket blurb)
Add this copy of Forty Years in Canada-Reminiscences of the Great North to cart. $102.95, good condition, Sold by RareNonFiction, ships from Ladysmith, BC, CANADA, published 1972 by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited/Maclean Hunter Limited.
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Good in Fair dust jacket. 0070774803. "Samuel Benfield Steele [1851-1919] joined the Canadian Militia, fought against the Fenians, and was on the Red River Expedition against Louis Riel's Metis. He joined the North-West Mounted Police and was involved in many of the historic episodes of the Canadian West. He fought in the South African War and, in later years, took a division overseas in WWI and was knighted for his services."-dust jacket. Binding tight. Moderate wear to book with prior owner's details inside boards and upon title page. Blind stamp to front free endpaper. Average wear to dust jacket which is sunned at spine and now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. pp. xx, 428. Index. Black and white illustrations. A sound copy of this "autobiography of one of the most remarkable men in the history of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian West."-dust jacket.; 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Sam Steele, Samuel B. Steele, North-west Mounted Police, NWMP,
