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File No. 437834 · Adjudicated
Jack Pickford
Actor — Tom Sawyer, Huck and Tom, Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come
Born
1896
Birthplace
TORONTO, ONTARIO
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
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 — 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
He was the younger brother of silent-film pioneer Mary Pickford, and spent his whole career being introduced that way regardless of his own credits.
The verdict
Born in Toronto, but the whole Pickford family — including his far more famous sister Mary — was on the move to New York for stage work before Jack was five. Silent-era child star, permanently in his sister's shadow. Four points, Johnny Canuck.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
Related files
More from the files: Actor · Ontario
References — en.wikipedia.org