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File No. 085021 · Adjudicated

Randy Bachman

Musician, songwriter, radio personality — "Takin' Care of Business", and "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"

Born

1943

Birthplace

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

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

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA

Canadian parentage

Both parents Canadian

Citizenship on record

Automatic by birth

II. Residency

Formative years spent in Canada

Raised — Manitoba

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

In 2020, a viewer spotted his guitar — stolen from a Toronto hotel room in 1976 — in a Japanese musician's YouTube video and tipped him off. He got it back the following year by trading its new owner another vintage Gretsch.

The verdict

The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive weren't just bands — they were the soundtrack to Canadian radio for decades. Born and raised in Winnipeg, this guitar legend helped put Canadian rock on the map, and he's never stopped repping the prairies, eh.

Adjudicated by

The Standings Committee

Status

Final — appealable