Library And Archives Canada: Federal Court Of Canada

Jackie Scott Dept: Now, the 66-year-old B.C. woman and others fighting to win Canadian passports are celebrating the discovery of a long-overlooked document - spied recently on a reel of microfilm at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa - that they're calling a game-changer for some of the country's last Lost Canadians, which is also the name of their lobby group, according to Vancouver Sun. Scott's case has attracted consider-able public attention over the years because although she was born in Britain at the end of the Second World War, her Canadian father and British mother settled and married in Canada when she was a toddler and the British-born, "illegitimate" daughter of a Canadian soldier from the Second World War and his British war-bride-to-be, Jackie Scott has been battling for years - right up to the Federal Court of Canada - to get the Canadian citizenship that she and other so-called "Lost Canadians" have been denied because of a wrinkle in 1940s citizenship rules. The 1948 memo, plucked from the archived files of a Mackenzie King-era immigration officer, shows how the government of the day ignored potential concerns about the status of a Canadian man's child - born out of wedlock and out of the country - but ruled that "it would be right and proper to recognize the child as a Canadian citizen." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.