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File No. 936904 · Adjudicated
Glenn Ford
Actor — Gilda, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle
Born
1916
Birthplace
SAINTE-CHRISTINE-D'AUVERGNE, QUEBEC
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
4.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Johnny Canuck 🦸Canadian to the core. May have moved, but still calls everyone “bud”.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
SAINTE-CHRISTINE-D'AUVERGNE, QUEBEC
Canadian parentage — not scored
Both parents Canadian
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — no
Raised elsewhere
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
No claim lodged
Fun fact
His father worked as a streetcar motorman in Santa Monica after the family emigrated, a detail Ford rarely brought up once he was one of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood.
The verdict
Born in Quebec, but the family emigrated to Santa Monica when he was six — early enough that his whole formative stretch was American. One of Hollywood's biggest box-office draws for two decades running, but Canada only got the birth certificate. Four points, Johnny Canuck.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org