Claim: George Calef, a Canadian wildlife biologist, was educated at the University of British Columbia and was a co-owner of Barren Lands Lodge.
Evidence: George Calef is a Canadian wildlife biologist, author and photographer, who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards for his nature book Caribou and the Barren-Lands. Born in Los Angeles, California and educated at the University of British Columbia, Calef worked as a wildlife biology researcher in the Canadian Arctic, studying caribou for the governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories. In the 1990s, he was a co-owner of Oldsquaw Lodge, a wilderness lodge off the Canol Road near the Northwest Territories-Yukon border.