Editing Sam Steele (section)

{{short description|Canadian soldier and police official}}
{{for-multi|the hockey player born 1998|Sam Steel|the sportscaster Samantha Steele|Samantha Ponder}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[Canadian Armed Forces ranks and insignia|Major-general]]
| name               = Sir Samuel Steele
| honorific_suffix   = {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCMG|CB|MVO|size=100%}}
| birth_name         = Samuel Benfield Steele
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1848|01|05|df=yes}}
| birth_place        = [[Medonte Township]], Province of Canada
| image              = Col SB Steele commanding Strathcona's Horse No 733 (HS85-10-11347) (cropped).jpg
| caption            = Col Steele commanding Strathcona's Horse
| occupation         = Soldier <br />
police officer
| alma_mater         = [[Royal Military College of Canada]]
| known              = First commanding officer of Strathcona's Horse<br />
head of the Yukon detachment of the [[North-West Mounted Police]] during the [[Klondike Gold Rush]]
| father             = [[Elmes Yelverton Steele]]
| death_date         = {{death date and age|1919|01|30|1848|01|05|df=yes}}
| death_place        = [[Putney]], London, United Kingdom
| module             = {{Infobox military person
   |embed        = yes
   |embed_title  = Military Service
   |allegiance   = [[Canada]]
   |branch       = Canadian Army
   |serviceyears = 1866-1918
   |unit         = [[Simcoe Foresters|35th Simcoe Infantry]]<br>[[Grey Regiment|31st Grey Infantry]]<br>[[North-West Mounted Police]]<br>[[Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)|Lord Strathcona's Horse]]<br>[[South African Constabulary]]
   |rank         = [[Lieutenant-colonel (Canada)|Lieutenant-Colonel]]
   |battles      = 
*[[Fenian Raids]]
*[[Wolseley expedition|Red River Expedition]]
*[[North-West Rebellion]]
**[[Battle of Frenchman's Butte]]
**[[Battle of Loon Lake]]
*[[North-West Mounted Police in the Canadian north|Yukon Field Force]] 
*[[Second Boer War]]
**[[Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson|Battle of Wolve Spruit]]
*[[First World War]]
  }}
}}
[[Canadian Armed Forces ranks and insignia|Major-general]] '''Sir Samuel Benfield Steele''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCMG|CB|MVO}} (5 January 1848 – 30 January 1919) was a Canadian soldier and policeman. He was an officer of the [[North-West Mounted Police]], head of the Yukon detachment during the [[Klondike Gold Rush]], and commanding officer of [[Strathcona's Horse]] during the [[Boer War]].