A short silent film about famous conservationist Grey Owl (born Archibald Belaney) and his wife, Anahareo, who had a special talent for interacting with beavers. Note: The beavers in the film may be Grey Owl's pets, Jellyroll and Rawhide.

May 27, 2023 · According to Grey Owl’s Pilgrims of the Wild, he hunted down a beaver home where he knew a mother beaver to be and set a trap for her. When the trap caught the mother beaver, Belaney began to canoe away to the cries of kitten beavers which greatly resemble the sound of human infants.

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.

This section of the website contains more in-depth information about Grey Owl, or Archie Belaney. Grey Owl's tragedy is that, for a long time after his death, controversy over his identity -- that he was English, and not an Indian as he allowed people to believe -- distracted from the important work he did to advance conservationism.

Jun 10, 2019 · Some credit him with saving the beaver—the national animal of Canada—from extirpation. He died suddenly of pneumonia in 1938, and then the wheels started coming off the story of Grey Owl. Journalists investigated the details of his life—and the truth emerged: Grey Owl was an imposter.

Sep 19, 2013 · One hundred and twenty five years ago, a great conservationist - and imposter - was born in East Sussex. Known as Grey Owl, he was one of Canada's first conservationists and is said to have saved...

Sep 15, 2015 · He was actually an Englishman named Archie Belaney, and who, after developing a fascination for First Nations culture as a boy, moved to Canada to find adventure in the early 1900s.

Aug 19, 2017 · On Ajawaan Lake in Canada’s Prince Albert National Park, a conservationist who called himself Grey Owl lived in a cabin with beavers from 1931 to 1938. He faked a First Nations identity; the former trapper was actually an Englishman named Archie Belaney, though these details didn’t emerge until after his death.

Archie Grey Owl is a trapper in Canada in the early 1930s when a young Iroquois woman from town asks him to teach her Indian ways. They live in the woods, where she is appalled at how trapped animals die. She adopts two orphaned beaver kits and helps Archie see his way to …

Nov 7, 2017 · The Through Veterans Eyes projects has uncovered new evidence on one of Canada’s most unique soldiers of the Great War: that of Archie Belaney, who is more commonly known in Canadian popular culture as Grey Owl.