Jann Arden

Musician — Insensitive, Could I Be Your Girl, Jann Arden

Born

1962

Birthplace

CALGARY, ALBERTA

Citizenships

Canadianness Score

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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

CALGARY, ALBERTA

Canadian parentage

No Canadian parents on record

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Alberta

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

Her sitcom Jann was shot in Calgary — about as prairie-rooted as Canadian television gets.

The verdict

Born in Calgary and still living in Alberta decades later, she's about as rooted in Canadian soil as you can get. Her music career launched from Canadian stages, her sitcom was quintessentially Canadian, and she's never pretended to be anything other than a prairie girl who made good. Canada claims her proudly, and she returns the favour.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable