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Fort Steele was a gold rush boom town founded in 1864 by John Galbraith. The town was originally called “Galbraith’s Ferry”, named after the ferry set up by the city’s founder over the Kootenay River. It was the only ferry within several hundred miles so Mr.Galbraith charged very high prices to get across. The town was renamed Fort Steele in 1888, after legendary Canadian lawman Superintendent Sam Steele of the North-West Mounted Police solved a dispute between a settler who had unjustly accused one of the local First Nations men with murder.

Source: Wikipedia