BECOMING CANADA’S FIRST CITIZEN.—Mr W. L. Mackenzie King receiving the number one certificate as a Canadian citizen from Chief Justice Rinfret. of the Supreme Court in Ottawa. The presentation marked the launching of National Citizenship Week, creating a new status as legally-recognised, full-fledged “Canadian citizens,” which people of the Dominion may now hold in addition to the rating of “British subjects.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 7
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61BECOMING CANADA’S FIRST CITIZEN.—Mr W. L. Mackenzie King receiving the number one certificate as a Canadian citizen from Chief Justice Rinfret. of the Supreme Court in Ottawa. The presentation marked the launching of National Citizenship Week, creating a new status as legally-recognised, full-fledged “Canadian citizens,” which people of the Dominion may now hold in addition to the rating of “British subjects.” Evening Star, Issue 26041, 4 March 1947, Page 7
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