James Doohan

Actor — Star Trek

Born

1920

Birthplace

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

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

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Canadian parentage

No Canadian parents on record

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — British Columbia

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

No claim lodged

Fun fact

He landed on Juno Beach with the Canadian Army on D-Day and was hit by six machine-gun rounds, losing a finger — an injury he hid from Star Trek producers for years so it wouldn't affect casting.

The verdict

Born and raised in Vancouver, and Scotty from Star Trek — a role so thoroughly his that most fans assumed the accent was real. Served in the Canadian Army and lost a finger on D-Day before any of it. Born, raised, five points, beam him up.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable