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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Correspondence, incoming and outgoing, related to inquiries about the availability of C.P.R. lands, and other land for purchase in Canada; includes two maps, described separately
File contains two maps, boxed separately (temp. box 130):
Map Drawer 1-1 "Map showing Blocks included in British Columbia Southern Railway Land Grant and Portion of Columbia and Kootenay Railway Land Grant British Columbia". Published by British Columbia Land Department, 15 Apr. 1907
Map Drawer 1-2 "'The Canadian West' Compiled from the Government Maps and Revised to January 1907"