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