Americans with one of these 42 last names may be secret Canadians

​If you were born in the United States with a last name like White, King, Carpenter, or Rivers, you might be a Canadian citizen by descent. While these names aren’t uniquely Canadian, they carry a secret—in many cases, they’re the anglicized form of French surnames — Leblanc, Roy, Charpentier, La Rivière — signalling the family’s
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If you were born in the United States with a last name like White, King, Carpenter, or Rivers, you might be a Canadian citizen by descent. While these names aren’t uniquely Canadian, they carry a secret—in many cases, they’re the anglicized form of French surnames — Leblanc, Roy, Charpentier, La Rivière — signalling the family’s […]

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