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Maternal Grandparents and Fido

: I’ve always said I should just go buy a dog tag and wear it around my neck, and there, according to Globe and Mail. There my ID. I’m Fido. They enact more laws pertaining to dogs and cats than they do to help stateless people. McGlaughlin doesn’t know where or when he was born, only that it was between Rosebud, S.D., and where his maternal grandparents lived in Guelph, Ont., around Jan. 19, 1954, the day he celebrates as his birthday. About 30 years ago, he hitchhiked to the Yukon, where he has lived ever since, supporting himself by hunting and fishing on aboriginal land. Fearing the government, his parents home schooled him and moved around Canada, he said, adding he broke loose when he was 15 and worked migrant jobs on farms. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.