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That's because Bell's family immigrated to Canada and lived in Canada before the Canadian Citizenship Act was passed.

So no one could legally become a Canadian Citizen until 1947 (over 20 years after Bell's death). He would have been classified as a British subject and citizen as Canada was still part of the British Empire. He has since been classified as an honorary Canadian, because many of his ideas and experiments originated in Canada, as well as his family.

During the last 30 years of his life, he spent increasing time in his Nova Scotian "summer" house. This is the last place he resided, he both died and chose to be buried in Canada.

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