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File No. 234264 · Adjudicated

David Clayton-Thomas

Musician — Blood, Sweat & Tears, Spinning Wheel, You've Made Me So Very Happy

Born

1941

Birthplace

KINGSTON UPON THAMES, ENGLAND

Citizenships

UK / CA

Canadianness Score

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

3.5/ 5

Weighted across 6 scored criteria

Designation

Ya No Ya 🤔

Knows that bud → buddy → pal is not an escalation in friendliness.

Scorecard

Path B — not born on Canadian soil

I. Origin

Born on Canadian soil

KINGSTON UPON THAMES, ENGLAND

Canadian parentage

One Canadian parent

Citizenship on record

Held — by descent or naturalisation

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Canada

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. It carries no weight under either path.

Publicly claims to be Canadian

Says so, out loud

Canada claims them back

Claimed, enthusiastically

Fun fact

Changed his name from David Thomsett to David Clayton-Thomas as a teenager in Toronto, after running away from an abusive home to build a new life and a new identity.

The verdict

Born in Surrey, England, but raised in Toronto from age 4, he became the voice of Blood, Sweat & Tears and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Canada absolutely claims him — he's lived here most of his life and built his legendary career from Toronto.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable