Jim Treliving

Entrepreneur — Boston Pizza co-owner, Dragons' Den

Born

1941

Birthplace

VIRDEN, MANITOBA

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

VIRDEN, MANITOBA

Canadian parentage

No Canadian parents on record

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Manitoba

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

His son Brad Treliving is the former general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The verdict

Born in small-town Manitoba and built a business empire entirely on Boston Pizza — bought his first franchise in Penticton, BC in 1968 after eight years in the RCMP, then bought the whole chain in 1983. He's been a fixture on Dragons' Den since 2006, proving you can take the guy out of the prairies but you can't take the prairies out of the guy.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable