According to this it seems that it’s transitive so it goes back all the way to the 1600’s as long as they were a Canadian citizen or (before either 1947 or 1949, depending on province) a British subject living in Canada.
This rule also applies to you if you were born to someone who became Canadian because of these rule changes.
Canada has citizenship by descent from a Canadian citizen and the rules were recently loosened so tons of Americans are applying to prove their descent from a Canadian citizen: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-citizenship/act-changes/rules-2025.html
Last I checked, the processing time for all those applications was 33 months because so many people were applying.
I actually have one. It was a couple of generations back though.
According to this it seems that it’s transitive so it goes back all the way to the 1600’s as long as they were a Canadian citizen or (before either 1947 or 1949, depending on province) a British subject living in Canada.
I will have to tell any family I have that might want to emigrate at some point thanks for the information I can’t believe I didn’t know that.
I am going down with the ship.
may not help, but check this out, it’s some of our programs etc. for people looking to come to Canada. https://ircc.canada.ca/explore-programs/index.asp
If you do find something that works, just keep in mind that our gov’t, like most, can be terribly slow in processing things. Good luck!
Thank you so much for the help, I will give this information to people that need it for sure.
humm I have Canadian ancestors but it’s something like 4 generations back. 3 at best.
It appears to be transitive so if you can prove a link back to them, every descendent counts as a Canadian citizen.