Well, his great-grandmother was. That’s one of the things I took from his funeral.
Technically, it wasn’t Canada yet, but close enough. Mormons like to point out famous Mormons, and Canadians like to point out famous Canadians. I’m both, so I can’t help it and take what I can get.
Well, then, by golly, so am I! My grandmother was born in Belleville, Ontario, the granddaughter of two lines of United Empire Loyalists.