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File No. 754236 · Adjudicated
James Collip
Other — Biochemist; part of group that isolated insulin
Born
Not on record
Birthplace
JAMES BERTRAM COLLIP NOVEMBER 20, 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 soil
I. Origin
✓
Born on Canadian soil — yes
JAMES BERTRAM COLLIP NOVEMBER 20, ONTARIO
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Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
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Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
✓
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
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Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
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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.
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Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
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Canada claims them back — not scored
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Won the 1936 Flavelle Medal and became a Fellow of the Royal Society for his groundbreaking work isolating insulin.
The verdict
Helped save millions of lives by purifying insulin in a University of Toronto lab, then spent his career advancing medical research across Canada. Born in Belleville, Ontario, he changed the world without ever needing the spotlight, eh.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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