Hi, and apologies if I am posting in the wrong place
My grandfather was in the Canadian Navy, coming from Britain as an officer on board one of the RCN's first ships, the cruiser Niobe, in 1910. From 1914-1916, during the early part of WWI, he commanded the ship, and saw some active service blockading and boarding German ships off the eastern seaboard of Canada and the US. Throughout this time he lived in Halifax, the naval base.
Am I right in thinking this would have made him automatically a Canadian citizen?
He returned to Britain in 1916, where he had a daughter, my mother, in 1921. If he was automatically a citizen, was she?
And if she was, would that entitle me to Canadian citizenship? I was born in 1955.
My grandfather was in the Canadian Navy, coming from Britain as an officer on board one of the RCN's first ships, the cruiser Niobe, in 1910. From 1914-1916, during the early part of WWI, he commanded the ship, and saw some active service blockading and boarding German ships off the eastern seaboard of Canada and the US. Throughout this time he lived in Halifax, the naval base.
Am I right in thinking this would have made him automatically a Canadian citizen?
He returned to Britain in 1916, where he had a daughter, my mother, in 1921. If he was automatically a citizen, was she?
And if she was, would that entitle me to Canadian citizenship? I was born in 1955.