Grey Owl - Posthumous Recognition

Posthumous Recognition

Numerous books about Grey Owl have been published, including:

• Half-Breed: The Story of Grey Owl by Lovat Dickson (1939)
• My Life with Grey Owl by Anahareo (1940)
• Footsteps on Old Floors, a collection of historical writings by the Nova Scotia writer Thomas Raddall, includes a 60-page chapter on the life of Grey Owl. Raddall gives accounts of Grey Owl's time in the Canadian Army during the First World War by men who served with him. (1968)
• Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl by Anahareo (1972) published in the UK as Grey Owl and I: A New Autobiography by Anahareo (1972)
• Wilderness Man: The Strange Story of Grey Owl by Lovat Dickson (1974)
• From the Land of Shadows: the Making of Grey Owl by Donald B. Smith (1990)

• In 1972 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) produced a documentary special on him. It was directed by Nancy Riley.
• In 1999, the film Grey Owl was released. It was directed by Richard Attenborough and starred Pierce Brosnan. The film received mixed reviews and received no theatrical release in the United States. As teenagers, Attenborough and his brother David had seen Grey Owl speak at the London Palladium theatre. David Attenborough later became a naturalist. In a 1999 interview, Richard Attenborough mentioned that they were both very affected by seeing Grey Owl, perhaps to the point of influencing their future career paths.

• On the 100th anniversary of Grey Owl's birth, the Grey Owl Society of Hastings arranged planting of a Canadian red maple tree in his honor in the grounds of the William Parker School, the successor to the Hastings Grammar School. In June 1997, the mayor of Hastings and the borough's Member of Parliament (Michael Foster) unveiled a plaque in his honor on the house at 32 St. James Road where he was born.
• The ranger station at Hastings Country Park, 4 miles to the east of Hastings, also has a commemorative plaque to Grey Owl. A full-size replica of his Canadian lakeside cabin is in Hastings Museum at Summerfields. An exhibition of memorabilia and a commemorative plaque are at the house at 36 St. Mary's Terrace where he lived with his grandmother and aunts.

• Parks Canada has restored his cabin and established a wildlife sanctuary at Lake Anaabe.

• In September 2004, hip-hop activist Raoul Juneja (aka Deejay Ra) launched a 'Grey Owl' Birthday Recognition Campaign. He incorporated Grey Owl titles into his 'Hip-Hop Literacy' project and campaigned on Canadian community TV for national recognition of Grey Owl's birthday. He was the first author to teach Native rights at Harvard University.

• In 2005, the birthday recognition campaign led to Key Porter Books re-publishing Grey Owl's classic Tales from an Empty Cabin. It also inspired a segment of a show on BookTelevision featuring DJ Ra and Lord Attenborough discussing Grey Owl's legacy.