Sharpe, Lloyd F. (Lloyd Frederick), 1927-2023
Biographical note
Lloyd Frederick Sharpe was born in Baynes Lake, British Columbia, Canada, in 1927. He was a rancher and worked as a surveyor for Columbia River Engineering in Canada. After construction of the Libby Dam in Montana flooded his land, Sharpe sued the provincial government of British Columbia for compensation in the 1980s, ultimately settling the suit 17 years later. He also served on the advisory committee for the Columbia Basin Trust, which was created in 1995 to manage funds earned through hydropower projects in B.C., and invest them back into dam-impacted communities in Upper Columbia River Basin. Sharpe died in 2023.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Sharpe in his interview; “Libby Dam Land Battle Drawing Slowly to a Close,” by Bill Bachop, The Vancouver Sun, March 19, 1973, Page 33; “Columbia Basin Trust: A Story of People, Power and A Region United,” Columbia Basin Trust, 2020 (accessed June, 2026), https://book.ourtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CBT-book-online-June-1.pdf, Page 83.