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1867 is not a cut-off year for your Canadian citizenship by descent claim

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CIC News 1867 is not a cut-off year for your Canadian citizenship by descent claim Your great-great-grandmother was born in Canada East in 1850. Canada didn’t become a country until 1867, so she arrived seventeen years too early, and you assume her citizenship claim dies with her. According to Canadian citizenship law, it doesn’t. Citizenship…

Generation zero: your ancestor didn’t have to be born in Canada to pass on Canadian citizenship

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CIC News Generation zero: your ancestor didn’t have to be born in Canada to pass on Canadian citizenship Many people researching their family history assume there’s only one way to have a Canadian ancestor: that at some point, someone in their lineage must have been born in Canada. But that assumption would be incorrect. Several…