Peter Lewis Paul

Peter Lewis Paul lived on the small Maliseet Woodstock Reserve on the banks of the Saint John River in New Brunswick, Canada.

Peter's father worked in a lumber camp, but after he left the reservation Paul was raised by his grandfather Nowell Polchies, who was a tribal elder and known as Wapeyit Piyel.

Paul became a fountain of traditional knowledge and generously shared information with numerous professional linguists, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists.

The recipient of many honours, he was awarded a Centennial Medal in 1969, received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of New Brunswick in 1970, and the Order of Canada on June 29, 1987.

Peter Lewis Paul died on August 25, 1989, and was buried at the Calvary Cemetery in Woodstock, Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Maliseet First Nations students (Wulustukwiak) on the steps of an Indian day school near Woodstock, New Brunswick. The boy sitting on the far right was identified as Dr. Peter Lewis Paul, 1902-1989.