Jim Pattison

Entrepreneur — Jim Pattison Group, Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Born

1928

Birthplace

SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN

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

SASKATOON, SASKATCHEWAN

Canadian parentage

No Canadian parents on record

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Saskatchewan

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

Owns the Ripley's Believe It or Not! chain outright and stepped in as president and CEO of the Expo 86 Corporation to help rescue the struggling world's fair.

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