Who built Already Canadian and why.

In February 2025, my sister, Lesley stumbled across a news article announcing a change to Canada's citizenship laws. Bill C-3 would remove the first-generation limit on citizenship by descent — meaning that for the first time, people like us might qualify through a great-great-grandparent, or further back.

As the family historian, I'd been working on our family tree for decades. I immediately realized our LeDuc line might make us eligible.

We hopped right on it.

That night, I ordered our Canadian ancestor's certified baptism record from BAnQ, along with my parents' and grandparents' birth and marriage certificates. The next day, my mother ordered her grandparents' documents — we were ineligible to order records that far back ourselves.

While waiting for the documents to arrive, we did a ton of research. We figured out who could apply together and who needed to apply separately. We started organizing and gathering what we needed.

After three weeks of intensive — somewhat obsessive — research and organizing, we submitted our 6- and 7-generation Proof of Citizenship applications to IRCC.

Now we wait.

Along the way, it became obvious that other people walking this same path were hitting the same walls we did — searching for templates that didn't exist, hunting for examples, asking questions in Facebook groups and getting half-answers (or worse, conflicting answers) from strangers.

I built this site so you don't have to start from zero.