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Tui Francis Sundar Lal Chanel I aka. Tui Sundal Lal Tilakdas

1916, Tui F.S.Chanel was born and raised in Suva in Fiji. His ancestors came to Fiji in 1882 from northern India traced to Harinandanpur. He raised nine children both in Fiji and American Samoa where he both called home. He was active in the Boy Scouts movement and introduced it to American Samoa. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed teaching children. He continued his engineer career fixing airplanes, cars, boats and worked as a foreman for the Van Camp Tuna Company in Satala, American Samoa. He then traveled the world as a merchant marinor on the Norwegian freighter Thorsisle. He then continued his work as an auto mehanic instructor in the Vocational Division of Samoana High School. Continuing his interests in photography, he opened Chanels Studio and as well as owning a samll family owned grocery store. He was instrumental in also assisting the first local newspaper in Pago Pago, American Samoa named The Samoa Times. He was named the South Pacific Boy Scout Commissioner of the Boy Scouts of America. At the time of his death in 1970, he was the Maintenance Director of Air New Zealand in American Samoa. A Boy Scout Camp was named in his honor in Nu'uli, American Samoa. He was honored by the Boy Scouts when he was laid to rest as a lifetime member of the Boy Scouts of America. His final resting place is in Satala, American Samoa.