Press Kit
A firsthand source on Bill C-3.
Everything you need to write about Canadian citizenship by descent under Bill C-3 — bios, photos, verified facts, and pre-approved quotes you can use directly in your story.
Press contact
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Company
Citizenship by Descent LLC
DBA: AlreadyCanadian.com
Mailing address
30 N Gould St, Ste R
Sheridan, WY, 82801
Verified facts
Key facts about Bill C-3.
The essentials for citation. For deeper context, see the full FAQ.
01
Effective Date
Bill C-3 took effect December 15, 2025, formally titled the Act to Amend the Citizenship Act (2025).
02
Court ruling
Bill C-3 followed the Bjorkquist decision, in which Canada's highest court ruled that citizenship by descent must be expanded beyond a single generation.
03
First-generation limit abolished
Before Bill C-3, citizenship by descent was capped at the first generation born outside Canada. That limit no longer exists — descent can now pass through multiple generations born outside Canada.
04
Retroactive restoration
For anyone born before December 15, 2025, citizenship is restored retroactively through any number of generations. People previously denied under the first-generation limit can now apply under the current rules.
05
"Lost Canadians"
The descendants previously excluded by the first-generation limit came to be known as "Lost Canadians." Bill C-3 effectively restores their status, requiring them only to apply for official recognition.
About
Bios — short & long.
2 sentences
Short Bio
Ellery Wren is a title researcher and documentation specialist with a decade of professional experience tracing legal records across generations for oil, gas, and mineral acquisitions. She founded Citizenship by Descent LLC after applying that same skill set to her own family's seven-generation Proof of Citizenship application, which is currently pending with IRCC.
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Long Bio
Much of Ellery Wren's professional work centers on one skill: tracing legal documents over time to establish a chain of rightful ownership. For the last decade, she has done this kind of research for oil, gas, and wind energy acquisitions — searching public records back to the original land patent, following chains of title across multiple jurisdictions, and drafting the affidavits, purchase agreements, and assignments that make those deals defensible.
Along the way, she has built more than forty family trees, not as a hobby but as part of the due diligence behind title defense work.
She holds a BA and two master's degrees.
In early 2026, she applied that same skill set to her own family. She spent three weeks tracing her LeDuc line through seven generations of Quebec parish records, civil registrations, and naturalization papers — alongside her sister, who served as co-researcher — and submitted their Canadian citizenship applications to IRCC in April 2026.
She founded Citizenship by Descent LLC to give other people pursuing Bill C-3 applications the structured resources she wished she'd had on day one — templates, archive guides, and plain-language walkthroughs of the process.
Her goal is to save people time on the logistical work so they have more energy for the meaningful parts of the journey: researching their family history, discovering Canada, and connecting with others going through the same experience.
Downloadable
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For your story
Pre-approved quotes.
Attributed to Ellery Wren, founder of Citizenship by Descent LLC. Use any of these directly in your story without additional permission.
Quote 01
Already Canadian
"The biggest thing that happened was realizing we weren't applying for Canadian citizenship — we were already Canadian. We just needed the government to make it official. That completely changed how we thought about ourselves."
— Ellery Wren, founder, Citizenship by Descent LLC
Quote 02
Family bonding experience
"What surprised me was how much it became a family bonding experience. I subscribed to newspapers.com and started finding things about my mom's family I'd never known. I was sharing discoveries with the older generations who remembered some of these people, and with my kids, who had never heard the stories. It wasn't just a paperwork project. It was a family project."
— Ellery Wren, founder, Citizenship by Descent LLC
Quote 03
Community of cousins
"I spent a lot of time on Reddit and in Facebook groups, and honestly, it was beautiful. Strangers were helping strangers trace family lines, celebrating each other's discoveries, comparing notes on the process. It felt like a small pocket of shared hope, which is something you don't see a lot of right now. After years of divisiveness and uncertainty, being part of that community was uplifting."
— Ellery Wren, founder, Citizenship by Descent LLC
Quote 04
Second chance
"A few years ago, my sister and I had looked into getting Canadian citizenship. The rules at the time made it basically impossible for us given our life situations. When she sent me the article about Bill C-3, I remembered immediately that our LeDuc line was Canadian — that's my mother's side, from Quebec — and I knew we had another chance. We didn't hesitate."
— Ellery Wren, founder, Citizenship by Descent LLC
Quote 05
Logistical friction
"When we started, the law had just changed, and demand for certified documents was already skyrocketing. The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) couldn't give me a time estimate for how long the baptism record would take. I was using AI to translate French-language websites so I could figure out how to even place the request. I think a lot of people underestimate how much friction exists in this process before you can even start."
— Ellery Wren, founder, Citizenship by Descent LLC
Quote 06
Discovering Canada itself
"One of the unexpected parts of this was becoming curious about Canada itself. Not just the legal status, but the actual place — the history, the culture, the region our ancestors came from. I'd always thought of us as American. Now I'm thinking about Canada in ways I never did before. My best friend happens to be a dual citizen, and she was so excited when I told her what we were doing."
— Ellery Wren, founder, Citizenship by Descent LLC
Expertise
Story angles I can speak to.
Six directions for your story, with firsthand experience or deep research behind each.
Angle 01
Personal application journey
Three weeks of intensive research, gathering seven generations of documents, and the day-by-day reality of preparing a multigenerational application.
Angle 02
Quebec heritage and French Canadian ancestry
The unique challenges of French Canadian archival research — BAnQ, parish baptism records, dit names, and the history of Quebec emigration to New England.
Angle 03
Logistical reality of Bill C-3 applications
Document gathering, archive requests, translation requirements, the learning curve, and the current demand surge at archives like BAnQ.
Angle 04
Sudden interest from Americans
The political climate, dual citizenship as insurance, cross-border family ties, and the cultural moment shaping this surge in interest.
Angle 05
Family and community experience
How this process becomes a multi-generational family project, and how online communities have formed around the shared journey of discovery.
Angle 06
The "already Canadian" reframe
How Bill C-3 differs from typical immigration stories — it's not about becoming Canadian, but about legal recognition of citizenship that already existed.
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