William Arthur Steel

Steel retired as lieutenant colonel in 1936, and later served as a commissioner with the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, which became the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He was involved with William Duncan Herridge in the New Democracy, a party that advocated social credit in the late 1930s and early 1940s.^[3] Steel helped create radio network in the Northwest Territories and radio for civil aviation in Canada.^[1]

Steel later worked as a consultant and involved in the DEW Line until his death.

He died in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1968^[3] and was buried at Beechwood Cemetery.^[1]