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- By 1925, at the age of thirty-seven, he was on the run from the law, pursued by a nemesis, one Inspector Jordan. His crime was not very serious—he had punched a station agent— but Grey Owl was not the sort of man who wanted to spend any time at all in jail. Traveling with him was the love of his life, an Iroquois girl named Anahareo.
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Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938), commonly known as Grey Owl, was a popular writer, public speaker and conservationist. Born an Englishman, in the latter years of his life he passed as half-Indian, claiming he was the son of a Scottish man and an Apache woman.
Sep 19, 2013 · Born Archibald Stansfeld Belaney on 18 September 1888 in Hastings, he grew up enthralled by stories of Native Americans and moved to Canada aged 17 in search of a new life. He married a girl from...
- Early Life
- Grey Owl: Writer and Conservationist
- Death and Exposure
- The Continuing Allure of Archibald Belaney
- Books
Raised by two aunts and his grandmother, Archibald Belaney had an unhappy childhood. As a boy, he was fascinated with North American Indigenous peoples. At 17, he left England for Northern Canada where, apart from his war service, he spent the remainder of his life. Through his association with the Ojibweof Northern Ontario, he learned about the lo...
Shortly after his arrival, Archibald Belaney presented himself as the son of a Scottish man and an Apache woman and began to use the name Grey Owl. As Grey Owl, he published his first book, The Men of the Last Frontier (1931). Anahareo, his Algonquin and Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) wife, convinced him of the need for conservation, and that became the c...
Shortly after his death, the North Bay Nugget published an article on 13 April 1938 in which it revealed that Archibald Belaney had falsely identified himself as Grey Owl and was not Indigenous. Other newspapers picked up the story. His work as a conservationist was largely forgotten. New editions of his book came out in the early 1970s, and CBCair...
Archibald Belaney’s work and life have continued to fascinate historians and biographers, readers and viewers. Several biographies were published in the 1990s, including Donald B. Smith’s From the Land of Shadows: The Making of Grey Owl, Armand Garnet Ruffo’s Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney (1996), and Jane Billinghurst’s Grey Owl: The Many...
The Men of the Last Frontier (1931) Pilgrims of the Wild (1934) The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People (1935) Tales of an Empty Cabin(1936)
Having left his legal wife, he entered into a relationship with Marie Girard, a Métis woman in Bisco. When they separated early in the winter of 1914–15, he apparently did not know that she was pregnant. She died of tuberculosis shortly after giving birth to their son, John, in the fall of 1915.
FOR THE FIRST DAYS AFTER GREY OWL’S DEATH, the English press had fun with him. People love a hoax, and the Archie Belaney in Grey Owl had been uncovered.
The English author and conservationist Archibald Belaney (who called himself Grey Owl) and his Mohawk wife Gertrude Bernard (also known as Anahareo) lived and worked in Riding Mountain and Prince Albert National Parks in the 1930s.
A Red Indian with maiden aunts in Hastings was too much for public credulity and Grey Owl was transformed back into Archibald Belaney – not noble savage but wily white imposter. The former trapper was himself trapped and skinned.
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