Who is a famous hero from the ranks of the Mounties?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence. The guide writes: Some of Canada's most colourful heroes, such as Major-General Sir Sam Steele, came from the ranks of the Mounties. The man the test wants is therefore Major-General Sir Sam Steele — named exactly that way in the guide.

The Mounties context is in the same passage. Discover Canada says: "Today, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP or 'the Mounties') are the national police force and one of Canada's best-known symbols." The force traces back to the North West Mounted Police, founded by Prime Minister Macdonald in 1873 — and Sam Steele rose through that force.

Discover Canada gives a separate caption that captures Steele's wider profile. The guide identifies him as "a great frontier hero, Mounted Policeman and soldier of the Queen." So Steele was not only a Mountie but also a soldier — combining police service in the West with military service. The guide singles him out as a defining example of the Mounties' role in Canadian heritage.

The Mounties themselves are listed as one of the country's "best-known symbols." Sam Steele's biography fits inside that symbolism: he is the Mountie the guide names, the one Canadian whose career Discover Canada uses as the embodiment of how the Mounties helped shape Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The question is testing whether new citizens have noticed which figure is singled out as a Mountie hero by Discover Canada. The guide names exactly one — Major-General Sir Sam Steele — and adds a second descriptive line in a caption: "A great frontier hero, Mounted Policeman and soldier of the Queen." The right test answer is the figure with that name and rank.

The other answer choices each appear in Discover Canada in completely different roles. Louis Riel is the Métis leader of the Red River resistance and the second rebellion of 1885, not a Mountie. Sir John A. Macdonald founded the Mounties as Prime Minister but did not serve in their ranks. Robert Borden belongs to a later prime-ministerial era and is not described as a Mountie. Only Steele matches.