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Anahareo. Gertrude Bernard CM (June 18, 1906 – June 17, 1986), commonly known as Anahareo, was a writer, animal rights activist and conservationist of Algonquin and Mohawk ancestry.
6. Feb. 2006 · Anahareo was admitted into the Order of Nature of the Paris-based International League of Animal Rights in 1979. She is the author of two books: My Life With Grey Owl (1940) and an autobiography, Devil in Deerskins (1972).
Prospector. Conservationist. Mother. 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.
Trapper. Prospector. Adventurer. Conservationist. Wife. Mother. These are all roles that Anahareo took on in her life, yet none fully captures the essence of this amazing woman. Born in Mattawa, Ontario in 1906, Anahareo was raised in a modern town, attending Catholic school and taking part in all the appropriate religious observances with her ...
This page tells that story. • Ancestry • Her Early Years • Anahareo & Grey Owl • Finding Her Own Way. • Her Later Years • Anahareo Remembered. When Grey Owl and Anahareo met, Anahareo was a town girl of nineteen with a head full of romance and adventure but no real bush experience.
Anahareo was a Mattawa, Ontario-born woman of Native ancestry who married a trapper named Archie Belaney a.k.a. Grey Owl in 1926. She died in 1986 and is buried next to him at Lake Ajawaan, Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan. Learn more about her life, her relationship with Grey Owl, and her legacy in Mattawa and North Bay.
Anahareo is largely known as the wife of Grey Owl (Archibald Belaney), the trapper, writer and famed conservationist who claimed to be part Scots and part Apache, but was revealed to be an Englishman after his death in 1938. Anahareo and Grey Owl had one daughter, Shirley Dawn (b. 1932).
