Royal Canadian Navy: Navy Veteran

Citizenship Act Dept: But Brammah, now 75 and in poor health, didn t realize until 2002 that he was not considered a Canadian citizen, even though he has lived in Canada since he was six years old. His parents were both British subjects, but Brammah s mother came to Canada with him as a child after divorcing his father and then marrying a Canadian citizen, according to The Star. The group is comprised of people who believe they are Canadians but never actually received their citizenship because of quirks in citizenship legislation, including many born during World War II. In 2009, Bill C-37 was passed, which granted or restored citizenship to thousands affected by such quirks. But others, including Brammah, remain outside of that amended bill because he was born before 1947, the year Canada s first citizenship act became law and vANCOUVER Peter Brammah had always considered himself as Canadian as it gets, enlisting in the Royal Canadian Navy and serving as a police officer in Calgary. An advocacy group called Lost Canadians filed an application in federal court Tuesday on Brammah s behalf, demanding the federal government provide the Navy veteran with his Canadian citizenship. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.