What was the general Canadian attitude to ‘Nature’ in the early years of Canada’s existence as a nation?

 

If to impose an order on environment was the central concern of the Canadian mind in the Nineteenth Century, a nostalgia for the recovery of wilderness with a feeling of guilt for rape of nature informs the Canadian imagination today when technology has made inroads into this wilderness. Once the God forsaken wilderness has today become an object of longing. One of the most fascinating figures in Canadian literature now is Archibald Balaney, alias Grey Owl, a Yong Brit who came to Canada at eighteen and within two years had gone Indian. He deconstructed his English past and invented an Indian heritage for himself, a hoax which lasted until pfter his death.

With the publication of his famous Pilgrims of the Wild in 1935, he became a big sensation. Clad in bookskin facket and leather parts wearing moccasins, his long black hair hanging in plaits to his shoulders, he presented himself a half-bread born in Maxico and brought up in the Canadian Wilderness. Grey Owl seems to have awakened a nostalgia for the enmity of the primitive wilderness in Europeans who were stumbling towards the Second World War. Most marvellous is that no one knew that this articulate half-breed who captured their imaginations was really Archie Beelaney for Hartings, England, Grey Owl, in fact, was not a phony because he adopted the Indian way of thinking as much as living.

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