Background
His mother and twin brother died in childbirth.
His mother and twin brother died in childbirth.
Peter Lewis Paul lived on the small Maliseet Woodstock Reserve on the banks of the Saint John River in New Brunswick, Canada. Adult Paul married Minnie Dedham (1908–1974), granddaughter of Chief Gabe Atwin, in 1928. Together they had nine children: Rowenna, Donna, Carol, Diana, Wanda, Reggie, Bobbie, Billy and Darryl.
Paul became a fountain of traditional knowledge and generously shared information with numerous professional linguists, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists.
The recipient of many honors, 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.