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I've never travelled much to Canada in my life, but this year we are going. Mostly, scoping out places to move out of the US to.
You may wish also to check out whether you may be able to claim citizenship by descent under an Interim measure related to the Bjornquist ‘Lost Canadians’ decision.
It requires one Canadian-born ancestor (not a child of other countries foreign service).
While I wouldn’t usually recommend Reddit, the r/CanadianCitizenship subreddit has a useful FAQ on the Interim Measure and people posting about their experiences with the process.
What if we had living ancestors in I think it was Montreal in 1876 who later emigrated
Yes, your Quebecois ancestors would be considered Canadian-born.
But this opportunity to seek citizenship may be time limited as it’s an interim measure in place until the government can pass legislation to amend the citizenship act to address the issues found in the Bjorkquist decision.
Your ancestors wouldn’t have birth certificates as there wasn’t civil registration of births at that time but there is a database of baptismal records (which are valid for proof of birth from that time).
That subreddit has several people who have applied based on great-great grandparents who were born in the 19th century.
Best to look at the FAQs there. The forms are on the IRCC site but the information isn’t easily navigated around the interim measure.
I appreciate you so much for sharing this. We are trying to pursue whatever avenue we can and thought we didn't have a shot until I saw your comment.
You’re welcome. The Bjorkquist decision implications aren’t that well known. I wouldn’t be aware if we weren’t trying to help some extended family figure it out z