Photo: Vera Goulet via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
File No. 032025 · Adjudicated
Robert Goulet
Musician — Camelot (Broadway), 'If Ever I Would Leave You'
Born
1933
Birthplace
LAWRENCE, UNITED STATES
Citizenships
US / CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
3.5/ 5
Weighted across 6 scored criteria
Designation
Ya No Ya 🤔Knows that bud → buddy → pal is not an escalation in friendliness.
Scorecard
Path B — not born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — no
LAWRENCE, UNITED STATES
Canadian parentage — yes
One Canadian parent
Citizenship on record — yes
Held — by descent or naturalisation
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Canada
Lived in Canada by choice — yes
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — yes
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. It carries no weight under either path.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
Fun fact
Won a Grammy for Best New Artist in 1962 after training his voice on CBC's Pick the Stars and years of radio work at CKUA.
The verdict
Born in Massachusetts but raised in Alberta from age 13 — first in Girouxville, later Edmonton — Goulet became one of those cultural chameleons who could pass as either American or Canadian depending on the crowd. He claimed both countries proudly throughout his career, and Canadians embraced him as one of their own — especially after he became a Broadway legend.
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org