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File No. 198347 · Adjudicated
Alexander Graham Bell
inventor, scientist, and engineer — Inventor of the telephone
Born
1847
Birthplace
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Citizenships
UK / CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
2.0/ 5
Weighted across 6 scored criteria
Designation
Gets Yearly Letters from the CRA 📬Not born or raised there — but the CRA always knows where to find them.
Scorecard
Path B — not born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — no
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Canadian parentage — no
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — yes
Held — by descent or naturalisation
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — no
Raised elsewhere
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — yes
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. It carries no weight under either path.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Bell conducted his first successful long-distance telephone call between Brantford and Paris, Ontario in 1876.
The verdict
Invented the telephone in Canada, died at his Nova Scotia estate, and co-founded Bell Canada — but started life in Scotland and became an American citizen too. Canada claims him as strongly as any country can claim a genius who belonged to the world, and honestly, we're not giving him back.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org