Archibald Belaney's Grey Owl

There are many great Canadians honoured and heard of in media but there are rarely any First Nations Canadians mentioned and it is extremely rare to hear of someone who pretended to be a native being labelled as such a Great Canadian. The Grey Owl (otherwise known as Archibald Belaney) claimed to be a member of the Ojibwa tribe but in fact was born in England under a fake identity which everyone knows as the Grey Owl. However, regardless of his fictitious identity Belaney was able to do incredible things for Canada’s environment. His plan and actions towards conserving First Nations’ territory and animals was what made the Grey Owl such a memorable Canadian. While around the age of forty, Belaney had enough of the way the “White culture” (Canadian