{"id":10193,"date":"2026-04-07T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/04\/07\/americans-with-one-of-these-42-last-names-may-be-secret-canadians\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:42:36","slug":"americans-with-one-of-these-42-last-names-may-be-secret-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/04\/07\/americans-with-one-of-these-42-last-names-may-be-secret-canadians\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans with one of these 42 last names may be secret Canadians"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u200bIf 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\u2019t uniquely Canadian, they carry a secret\u2014in many cases, they\u2019re the anglicized form of French surnames \u2014 Leblanc, Roy, Charpentier, La Rivi\u00e8re \u2014 signalling the family\u2019s
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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\u2019t uniquely Canadian, they carry a secret\u2014in many cases, they\u2019re the anglicized form of French surnames \u2014 Leblanc, Roy, Charpentier, La Rivi\u00e8re \u2014 signalling the family\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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\u200bIf 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\u2019t uniquely Canadian, they carry a secret\u2014in many cases, they\u2019re the anglicized form of French surnames \u2014 Leblanc, Roy, Charpentier, La Rivi\u00e8re \u2014 signalling the family\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cic-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}