> If you strace you should clearly see something like
>
> access("somePath/share/locale/shs_CA/LC_MESSAGES/kanagram.mo", R_OK) = 0
>
> This means the file was found, it will be preceded by things like
>
> access("/home/kdesvn/.kde/share/locale/shs_CA/LC_MESSAGES/kanagram.mo", R_OK)
> = -1

I copied the kanagram.mo file to the
.kde/share/locale/shs_CA/LC_MESSAGES from
/usr/share/locale-langpack/shs_CA/LC_MESSAGES/

and now the file is using the *.kvtml files and displaying the messages.