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1900 (Creation)
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1 photograph : b&w ; 5.5 x 8 cm
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Samuel Benfield Steele was born at Purbrook, Medonte, County Simcoe, Ontario on 5 January 1848 to Captain Elmes Steele and Anne MacIan Macdonald. His father served under Nelson and other Admirals in the Napoleonic Wars, moving to Canada in 1832, with his first wife and family. After the death of his first wife, Captain Steele married Sam's mother, and they had six children, Sam being the eldest.
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Henry Joseph Woodside was a journalist, writer and photographer who joined the 2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, 1901-1902, and saw action in the Boer War in South Africa.
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A group of military men, possibly members of the 90th squad, Winnipeg Rifles, lined up and holding rifles outside a white tent in preparation for departure to South Africa. The photographer is Henry Joseph Woodside, and on verso is written; "90th - squad under Major W _ Skirving at DRA Ottawa 1900". DRA might mean the Dominion Rifle Association which was headquartered in Ottawa at that time.