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File No. 048526 · Adjudicated
Mary Pickford
Actor — Silent film star, co-founder of United Artists, America's Sweetheart
Born
1892
Birthplace
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
4.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Johnny Canuck 🦸Canadian to the core. May have moved, but still calls everyone “bud”.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
Both parents Canadian
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — no
Raised elsewhere
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
Known as 'America's Sweetheart' in Hollywood's silent era, but she was actually born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto.
The verdict
Born in Toronto in 1892, she became Hollywood's first true superstar and co-founded United Artists, but left Canada as a child when her widowed mother moved the family to the States for work. She never forgot her roots though — Canada claimed her right back, and she's remembered as one of our earliest exports to make it big in the pictures.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org