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Grey Owl fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1927-1979.

Reference:

R2224-0-4-E, MG30-D147

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101894

Context of this record:

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Grey Owl fonds
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Fonds includes:

225 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1927-1979.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

653 photographs 2 col.
53 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of records and photographs documenting the life of naturalist and author, Grey Owl. The fonds contains photographs of Grey Owl; portraits of Grey Owl and friends at Beaver Lodge, and the settlement called Bisco, 1971.

The fonds also contains textual material arranged into the following ten series: Grey Owl Notebooks; Grey Owl Notebooks (Additional); Grey Owl Correspondence; Grey Owl Correspondence (Additional); Clippings; Clippings (Additional); Anahareo Material; Somervell Collection; Somervell Collection (Additional); Smart Collection.

Provenance:

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Grey Owl, 1888-1938

Biography/Administrative history:

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Grey Owl, 1888-1938 : Archibald Stansfeld Belaney, naturalist and author, was born in 1888 in Hastings, England, and first came to Canada in 1906, settling in northern Ontario. Claiming to be himself a halfbreed, in 1910 he married an Ojibwa, Angele Eguena. For many years, he earned a living as a trapper, guide and fireranger in the Temagami and Algoma districts. He went overseas with the Canadian Army in 1915 and was wounded in the war. During his convalescence in England, he married a childhood friend, Ivy Holmes, in 1917.

Soon after, Belaney returned to Canada, where he began to call himself Grey Owl and to assume Indian dress and customs. He married an Iroquois, Anahareo, who persuaded him to give up trapping and to raise beavers. Grey Owl subsequently became an ardent conservationist. The books and articles he wrote, such as Pilgrims of the Wild and The Adventures of Sajo and her beaver people, made him famous throughout Canada. He undertook two successful lecture tours of Great Britain in 1935 and 1937. In 1938, he died in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, where he had lived intermittently since 1931.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list of volumes 1 to 8. MSS0957 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000147.pdf

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General note:

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The original material in the series Grey Owl Notebooks, Grey Owl Correspondence, Clippings, Anahareo Material, and Somervell Collection has been photocopied and the originals removed from circulation. Researchers must consult the photocopies. Note that there is some discrepancy between the extents of the original material and the photocopies which replace it, due to the nature of the original documents.
Part of the collection was received in 1972 from G.N. Irwin and part in 1976 and 1980 from Grey Owl's daughter, Dawn Bruce Richardson of British Columbia. The Somervell Collection was received in 1979 from Betty Somervell's son Jonathan de F. Somervell of Crook, England, through Dawn Bruce Richardson and in 1990 from Jonathan de F. Somervell and his sister Kristin Bonney of Llangollen, Wales, through Professor Donald Smith of Calgary, Alberta.
The Smart Collection was received in 1995 from Riding Mountain National Park through John Aldag. Some photocopied material was received in 1988 from Professor Donald Smith and in 1989 from Kathleen Munro of Salmon Arms, British Columbia, through Professor Smith.
Photographs received from Dawn Bruce and J. de F. Somervall of Crook, England.
Subject heading:

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Prince Albert National Park (Sask.)

Grey Owl - Notebooks, 1927-1937 Beaver Lodge, 1927-1937

Grey Owl - Biographical, 1927-1937 Gertrude Anahareo, 1933-1952

Naturalist - Canada, 1927-1937 Lovat Dickson, 1927-1964

Authors, Canadian, 1927-1979 The Gold Leaf, [1927-1964]

Betty Sommervell - Diaries, 1936-1937 Dawn Bruce Richardson, 1933-1976

Natural History Betty Somervell, 1934-1974

Conservation "A Brief Account of Grey Owl's Life", 1934-1974

Ecology J. Daresbury Hatton, 1934-1974

Canadian Literature Order of Nature, 1979

Beavers International League for Animal Rights, 1979

Kathleen Anne Garland Munro, 1934

Anne Garland, 1934-1938

Forest and Outdoors, 1935

James Smart

Riding Mountain National Park

Anahareo, 1933-1952, 1979,
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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118-020130-2
118-020131-0
118-020132-9
122-020129-4
1977-191 NPC
1979-268 NPC
1988/0303 MSS
1989/0002 MSS
1995/0049

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D147
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000409.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 957] 90

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [GREY OWL 1979-268] C 0145

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [OWL, GREW 1977-191] INT 020

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [OWL, GREY 1979-268] INT 021

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items greater than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Textual records: Researchers must use photocopies of originals where they exist.

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