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Title: Canadian records WW2
Post by: vandab on Saturday 21 September 19 20:18 BST (UK)

UPDATE, all sorted now but thanks for looking


I'm trying to find my dads war records from WW2 in Canada.
I know his regiment and his service number but cannot find the best place to find them.
Sep 1936 • Ontario, Canada
Dad joined the Army in the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals and was posted to R.C.C.S. He was discharged September 22 1945, with a rank of Sergeant Reg No P40225.
Would anyone point me to where to look, I have looked on Find my Past

Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: IMBER on Saturday 21 September 19 20:32 BST (UK)
Have you looked here?:

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/second-world-war/Pages/introduction.aspx#a1

Imber
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: vandab on Saturday 21 September 19 20:57 BST (UK)
yes thank you.
 I forgot I sent for his service history in 2008, so have managed to find where I put it.
Too many house moves in between
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: MaxD on Saturday 21 September 19 20:58 BST (UK)
So presumably there is no further question?

MaxD
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: vandab on Saturday 21 September 19 21:02 BST (UK)
not in regards to his WW2 service, I just now need to find out if he became a Canadian citizen.
He was born in the UK but his family emigrated to Canada when he was 6 years old,
Unfortunately,  I never knew him as my mum never settled in Canada and brought me back to the UK to live, never found him until I was 40   
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: polarbear on Saturday 21 September 19 21:47 BST (UK)
Someone may correct me but my understanding is that he would have still been considered a British subject in Canada and naturalization would not have been necessary. I believe only those who arrived after the 1947 regulations came into force would have had to become naturalized. (Even those born in Canada prior to the 1947 regs were considered to be British subjects, if I remember correctly)

Info link here....

https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/citizenship-naturalization-records/Pages/introduction.aspx

PB
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: vandab on Saturday 21 September 19 22:01 BST (UK)
Oh, that's interesting, would he have been classed as Canadian or English?
He did live there until he died.
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: polarbear on Saturday 21 September 19 22:35 BST (UK)
I think that if he had been living in Canada since he was 6 years old he would have automatically become a Canadian citizen in 1947.

Trying to find better clarification.

PB
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: polarbear on Saturday 21 September 19 22:43 BST (UK)
Clarification here....last line of the 3rd paragraph.

https://pier21.ca/research/immigration-history/canadian-citizenship-act-1947

PB 

Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: vandab on Sunday 22 September 19 12:10 BST (UK)
Thank you, sounds like he automatically qualified
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: polarbear on Sunday 22 September 19 15:45 BST (UK)
Yes, I believe so. Pleased I could be of assistance.

PB
Title: Re: Canadian records WW2
Post by: vandab on Sunday 22 September 19 16:25 BST (UK)
I appreciate the help, thank you