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File No. 759145 · Adjudicated

Anne Murray

Musician — You Needed Me, Country, A Little Good News

Born

1945

Birthplace

SPRINGHILL, NOVA SCOTIA

Citizenships

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 soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

SPRINGHILL, NOVA SCOTIA

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Nova Scotia

Lived in Canada by choice

Residency on record as an adult

Worked or filmed in Canada

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

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

First Canadian female solo singer to reach #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart with 'You Needed Me' in 1978.

The verdict

Born in a Nova Scotia coal mining town, she became Canada's first female solo artist to reach #1 on the US charts and the first Canadian woman to win a Grammy. Whether crooning 'Snowbird' or making history at every turn, she's quintessentially Canadian — and we'll always save her a spot on the CBC, eh.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable