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About Anahareo - Anahareo. This section of the website contains more in-depth information about Gertrude Bernard, or Anahareo. Historical figures like Anahareo often take on an almost mythical status, which unfortunately detracts from the important message they have to convey. By placing her within the context of real people and real places ...
1925. July. Anahareo convinces her father to allow her to go to Camp Wabikon for a few weeks’ holiday. He eventually consents, on the condition that she is chaperoned by a married relative. August. Camp Wabikon’s social secretary, Isobel LeDuc, befriends Anahareo and offers her a job for the remainder of the summer.
Registrations of Births and Stillbirths – 1869-1913. MS 929, reel 164. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Archives of Ontario. Baptism Record for Walter Michael Edward Bernard. Mattawa Catholic Register 1898-1909, page 239-240. The first image at left is the registration of birth for Eddie Bernard, Anahareo's older brother.
Anahareo was all these things, but also so much more. In a time when aboriginal women were held in very low regard, Anahareo had the courage to do what she felt was right. In the process, she turned a hunter and trapper into a conservationist and author, and forever changed our relationship with nature.
Series RG31. In the images at left taken from the 1921 Census of Canada, three households believed to be related to Anahareo are listed. The first is the household of Anahareo's sister, Joanna Murphy (Johanna Bernard) (20) and her husband, a clerk named Harry Murphy (39). They have a one-year-old daughter, Natalie (though the name appears to be ...
Devil in Deerskins is Anahareo&;s autobiography up to and including her marriage to Grey Owl. In vivid prose she captures their extensive travels through the bush and their work towards environmental and wildlife protection. Here we see the daily life of an extraordinary Mohawk/ Algonquian woman whose independence, intellect, and spirituality had direct influence on Grey Owl&;s conversion from ...
In the image at left taken from the 1851 Census, one of Anahareo's paternal great-grandfathers, François Papineau, a 45-year-old Chief of the Nipissing, is listed at the very top of the page. Directly below him is his wife, Marie Otickwekijikokwe (37) and two young children, Cecile (5) and Bernard (1), possibly Anahareo's Great-Aunt and Great-Uncle.
