Keleghan: Canadian Actor and Country

keleghan: Keleghan's parents moved to Canada from England in 1957 and both describe their adopted homeland as the world's best country, according to Toronto Star. Yet his mother has refused to become a citizen while his father never looks back. CBC By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Thu., Jan. 12, 2017 Is it possible for immigrants to let go of the country where they have come from and fully embrace the one they have come to That's the question Peter Keleghan set out to explore when the award-winning Canadian actor and his big sister, Teresa, decided to take their mother back to her birthplace in Ireland for her 90th birthday last June. Keleghan, a TV stalwart with roles in numerous Canadian series as well as the soap opera General Hospital, invited a group of close friends for dinner one summer evening last year all first-generation children of immigrant parents and discovered the ubiquitous nature of Canada's immigrant stories. Article Continued Below Where people came from is not as good as what they have come to. The candid and unscripted discussions of their experiences have formed the backdrop of the Montreal-born actor's documentary Once An Immigrant, which premieres Thursday at 9 p.m. on CBC-TV's Firsthand. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.