Neil Young

Musician — Heart of Gold, Harvest, Crazy Horse, Buffalo Springfield

Born

1945

Birthplace

TORONTO, 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

TORONTO, 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

Fun fact

Co-founded Buffalo Springfield, then joined Crosby, Stills & Nash as their fourth member, all while maintaining Canadian citizenship his entire career.

The verdict

Born in Toronto, raised across Ontario and Manitoba, then headed south to make his mark on rock and roll history. Proudly Canadian his whole life, with dual citizenship and a cottage near Omemee, Ontario he still visits. Canada claims him as hard as he claims us, eh.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable