William Beynon
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Job / Known for: Ethnographer, Hereditary Chief
Left traces: Tsimshian Nation's history and culture
Born
Date: 1888
Location: CA Victoria, British Columbia
Died
Date: 1958 (aged 70)
Resting place: CA British Columbia
Death Cause: Natural causes
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Parent(s): Billy Beynon, Tsimshian mother of Nisga'a ancestry
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William Beynon was a Canadian hereditary chief of the Tsimshian Nation and an oral historian. He served as an ethnographer, translator, and linguistic consultant to many anthropologists who studied his people. His work with Marius Barbeau and others has been instrumental in preserving the history and culture of the Tsimshian, Nisga'a, and Gitksan peoples.
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