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Portrait
File No. 982998 · Adjudicated
Frank Gehry
Architect — DZ Bank building, 8 Spruce Street, Louis Vuitton Foundation
Born
1929
Birthplace
TORONTO, 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
TORONTO, 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
Changed his name from Ephraim Goldberg to Frank Gehry in the 1950s, but kept the Canadian citizenship his whole life.
The verdict
Born in Toronto but moved to Los Angeles at 17, Gehry became one of the world's most famous architects while holding dual citizenship. Despite spending most of his career in California, he never forgot his roots — designing the Art Gallery of Ontario renovation and the National Ballet School in his hometown.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org