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File No. 668507 · Adjudicated
Jonathan Frid
Actor — Dark Shadows
Born
1924
Birthplace
HAMILTON, ONTARIO
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
HAMILTON, ONTARIO
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 — Ontario
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
No claim lodged
Fun fact
Dark Shadows was on the verge of cancellation before Frid's vampire character was introduced — ratings turned around almost as soon as Barnabas Collins showed up.
The verdict
Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, and the man who made a vampire soap opera into a genuine 1960s cultural phenomenon — Barnabas Collins turned Dark Shadows from a struggling gothic drama into must-see afternoon television almost overnight. Born, raised, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org