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File No. 753283 · Adjudicated
Karen Kain
Dancer — Canadian former ballet dancer
Born
1951
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
Claimed, enthusiastically
Fun fact
She was the first North American ballerina to dance with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow during the Cold War.
The verdict
Trained at the National Ballet School of Canada and became one of the greatest ballerinas in the world, spending her entire career dancing for and eventually running the National Ballet of Canada. A true cultural ambassador who made Canada proud on stages from Moscow to New York.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org