He was the son of a Scottish father and Apache mother. He claimed his father was a man named George MacNeil, who had been a scout during the 1870s Indian Wars in the southwestern United States. Grey Owl said his mother was Katherine Cochise of the Apache, Jicarilla band. He further said that both parents had been part of the Wild Bill Hickok Western show that toured England. Grey Owl claimed to have been born in 1888 in Hermosillo, Mexico, while his parents were performing there.

• "King of the Beaver People", January 1931
• "A Day in a Hidden Town", April 1931
• "A Mess of Pottage", May 1931
• "The Perils of Woods Travel", September 1931
• "Indian Legends and Lore", October 1931
• "A Philosophy of the Wild", December 1931

• Angele Egwuna (Anishinaabe), married August 1910. Daughter Agnes Belaney.
• Métis woman, with whom Belaney had a son. She died of tuberculosis soon after the boy was born and he was raised by her family.
• Constance (Ivy) Holmes, married in England in 1917. No children.
• Gertrude Bernard (Anahareo) (Mohawk), eight-year affair beginning with Anishinaabe marriage ceremony in 1925. Daughter Shirley Dawn, b. 1932. Separated 1936.
• Yvonne Perrier (French Canadian), "married" November 1936. No children.

• Half-Breed: The Story of Grey Owl by Lovat Dickson (1939)
• My Life with Grey Owl by Anahareo (1940)
• 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.

• 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.

• The Men of the Last Frontier. London: Country Life, 1931.
• Pilgrims of the Wild. London: Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1934.
• The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People. London: Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1935.
• Tales of an Empty Cabin. London: Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1936.

• The Tree. London: Lovat Dickson Ltd., 1937.

Collected editions

Translations

• Ludzie Z Ostatniej Granicy. Translation by Aleksander Dobrot. Warsaw (Poland): Wydawnictwo J. Przeworskiego, 1939.
• Ambassadeur des bêtes. Translation by Simonne Ratel. Paris : Hatier-Boivin, 1956?. (Called Ambassador of the Beasts", Translation of the second part of: Tales of an Empty Cabin)
• Récits de la cabane abandonnée. Translation by Jeanne-Roche-Mazon. Paris : Éditions contemporaines, 1951. (Translation of the first part of: Tales of an Empty Cabin.)
• Sajo et ses castors. Translated from the English by Charlotte and Marie-Louise Pressoir; illustrations by Pierre Le Guen. Paris : Société nouvelle des éditions G.P., 1963. (Translation of: The Adventures of Sajo and Her Beaver People.)
• Pilgrims of the Wild. Éd. ordinaire. Translation by Jeanne Roche-Mazon. Paris : Éditions contemporaines, 1951.
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• Przygody Sajo i ma?ych bobrów. Warsaw, 2008.

• Anahareo. Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl. Toronto: Paperjacks, 1972.
• Attenborough, Richard, dir. Grey Owl. Screenplay by William Nicholson. Largo Entertainment, 1999.
• Atwood, Margaret. "The Grey Owl Syndrome", Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature. Oxford: Clarendon, 1995. 35-61.
• Ruffo, Armand Garnet, Grey Owl: The Mystery of Archie Belaney (1996)

• See the silent films Beaver People (1928) and Beaver Family (1929), National Film Board of Canada
• "Grey Owl", Prince Albert National Park
• Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction: Grey Owl, Library and Archives Canada website
• Historica Minutes TV Commercial, Canadian Heritage