Plaque Location
The District of Nipissing
The Municipality of Temagami
At Finlayson Point Provincial Park, off Highway 11,
about 1.5 km south of Temagami
Plaque Text
As a youth in England, Archibald
Belaney was fascinated with wildlife and tales of North
American Indians. At seventeen he came to Canada and
soon began living among the Ojibwa on Bear Island. He
adopted native dress and customs and worked as a
woodsman, fire ranger and trapper in north eastern
Ontario. In the 1920s Belaney became concerned that the
lumber industry and sportsmen were plundering the
northern wilderness and threating the survival of native
culture.He took the name Grey Owl (Wa-Sha Quon-Asin) and
turned his efforts to conservation, pleading for
recognition of "the natural brotherhood between man and
animals". Grey owl gained international fame as a writer
and public speaker.
