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DRAFT REPORT: Rights and Title Interests in the Columbia Valley Transmission Project Area
who assisted Thompson in his expedition to Astoria is contested by contemporary members of
the Shuswap Indian Band. For example, in a recent TUS study, Sam Paul [b. 1938] states:
My Dad’s Dad, Louie Paul 108 came over [to the Columbia Valley] with Kinbasket. They
took David Thompson to the United States, to Astoria, Oregon. My grandfather was gone
all summer and Moses stayed all summer and came back later. 109
Paul Sam [b. 1936] states:
When you look at the paper and stuff it’s all written different...there is a
lot of stuff that isn’t right in there, at least from what I went through. 110
More information is available concerning the family history of Louie Paul. A July 1 st 1964
interview between Imbert Orchard and Frank Paul [b. 1889] 111 , a grandson, had this to say about
the origins of Louie Paul 112 :
Frank: My name is Frank Paul and my dad's name is Baptiste. Paul. He
was originated from United States, from Washington. 113 And we got a lot
of people in Colville, Washington where my grandfather comes from,
(name), Washington. That's along the Canadian border on the eastern
B.C. And from there we settled at, they settled at Windermere on the
Columbia lakes, you know, north of the Columbia lakes, place called
Athalmere. There's a little Shuswap reserve where people went from
Kamloops into that country, Kootenay country. How they got there it's
impossible to say, just how they travelled through the mountains
over into that country. But my dad's Indian name was (Indian), and he
married a woman from around the Shuswap tribe.
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108 In the 1901 Canada census, Louis Paul, Senior, is said to have been born in 1841, and Louis Paul,
Junior, in 1866. The latter would seem to be the grandfather mentioned by Sam Paul. His reference to “Moses” is
likely to “Moses Kinbasket,” born 1858. It is presumably this above-cited statement by Sam Paul that is being
referenced in the April 2009 report by Fish Lake Consulting (Traditional Use and Environmental Interests in the
Proposed Glacier Howser Hydroelectric Project) where it is stated: “Another Kenpesq’t member mentioned that
David Thompson was accompanied to Astoria by an earlier Kenpesq’t [Kinbasket] member” (Fish Lake Consulting
2009, page 19).
109 Shuswap Indian Band 2008, page 39.
110 Shuswap Indian Band 2008, page 39.
111 1911 Canada Census.
112 Available online: http://dspace.cc.uregina.ca/dspace/handle/10294/884; accessed 6 November 2009.
113 The 1911 Canada census provides a birth date of 1870 for Baptiste Paul.
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