Margaret Atwood

Author — The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye, Alias Grace

Born

1939

Birthplace

OTTAWA, ONTARIO

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

OTTAWA, ONTARIO

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Ontario

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

The verdict

Born in Ottawa, raised in various parts of Ontario and Quebec, Margaret Atwood is Canada's national literary treasure and the author of The Handmaid's Tale — which, depending on the news cycle, feels either prophetic or current. Still very Canadian, still very brilliant, still living in Toronto. Five points and a Governor General's Award.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable