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 :The Chinook (""Tshinuk"", not ""Shinook"" as in Alberta) lived only along the lower reaches of the Columbia in Oregon and Washington.  There are no Chinook in Canada.  There were Hawaiians who married natives at Fort Vancouver; some may have been among the HBC staff who moved to Fort Langley in the 1820s, along with those who were Metis or other franco-canadiens (as Iroquoians often were, and they were HBC staff as well).  As with the Kanaka/Canuck theory commented on below, this ""Chinook=Canuck"" thing is not born out by any evidence whatsoever, even less so than the many gaffes in the Kanaka/Canuck theory....(see below)."