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Photo: Nigel Dickson; copyright: Lawrence Hill (work for hire) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
File No. 178099 · Adjudicated
Lawrence Hill
Author — The Book of Negroes, Any Known Blood, The Illegal
Born
1957
Birthplace
NEWMARKET, 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
NEWMARKET, 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
Won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Book of Negroes, which was also adapted into a Canadian TV miniseries.
The verdict
There appears to be confusion here — Lawrence Hill is a celebrated Canadian author, not an actor. Born in Newmarket, Ontario to a Black American father and white Canadian mother, he's written beloved books like The Book of Negroes and Any Known Blood. If we're talking about the writer, he's about as Canadian as they come, eh.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org