Canadian citizenship can be passed down through a family line, and the descendants of a Canadian can often claim it. What’s easy to miss is that the year your ancestors lived can change everything about how that claim works. The pivotal year is 1947; that’s when Canada created citizenship as a legal status — and […]

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