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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
Born and raised in Newmarket, Ontario, to two American civil-rights activists who emigrated to Canada together, Lawrence Hill has spent his career writing the country's history back into view — The Book of Negroes and Any Known Blood among his best-known works. Born here, raised here, five points.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org