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File No. 594109 · Adjudicated
Alan Thicke
Actor — Growing Pains
Born
1947
Birthplace
KIRKLAND LAKE, ONTARIO
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
KIRKLAND LAKE, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Co-wrote the theme songs for Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life while also composing Hockey Night in Canada themes.
The verdict
Grew up in a northern Ontario mining town, became Canada's TV dad both at home and south of the border, and wrote theme songs that defined Canadian television. Even after decades in Hollywood, he never stopped repping the Great White North.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org