Frederick Banting

pharmacologist, orthopedist, and field surgeon — Co-discovery of insulin, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1923)

Born

1891

Birthplace

ESSA, ONTARIO

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

ESSA, ONTARIO

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Ontario

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

Died in a plane crash en route to wartime England — the pilot, Joseph Mackey, was the only survivor and found Banting already dead in the snow the next morning.

The verdict

Co-discovered insulin in a University of Toronto lab, saving millions of lives and putting Canadian medical research on the world map. Born in rural Ontario, never left Canada except for war service and a fatal plane crash in Newfoundland. A national hero whose face graced the $100 bill.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable