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May 19, 2026
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Americans hoping to claim Canadian citizenship look back centuries to find ancestors
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Americans hoping to claim Canadian citizenship look back centuries to find ancestors
NONO SHEN
THE CANADIAN PRESS
PUBLISHED MAY 19, 2026
UPDATED MAY 21, 2026
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Jeffrey Lensman's Quebec-born great-great-grandfather Odilon Marceau and great-great-grandmother Mathilde Goyette with their adult children in a 1910 handout photo. Lensman, from Salt Lake City, Utah, is seeking Canadian citizenship on the basis of Marceau's birth in Quebec in 1838.
JEFFREY LENSMAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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