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File No. 083737 · Adjudicated
Jim Pattison
Entrepreneur — Jim Pattison Group, Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Born
1928
Birthplace
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN
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 soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Saskatchewan
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
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
Owns the oldest Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum collection and brought Expo 86 to Vancouver as its commissioner.
The verdict
Born in Saskatoon and built Canada's third-largest private company without ever leaving, Jim Pattison is as Canadian as they come — a prairie kid who turned a single GM dealership into a business empire spanning everything from grocery stores to the PNE. The man's been quietly shaping the Canadian landscape for over six decades, eh.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org