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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
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
SPRINGHILL, NOVA SCOTIA
Canadian parentage — not scored
Both parents Canadian
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Nova Scotia
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
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
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References — en.wikipedia.org