I know nothing about Mark Rypien's family but he did not grow up in Canada himself. I would not consider him a Canadian QB.
But reading about him did lead me to this funny nugget on his Wikipedia page.
"Born in Calgary, Alberta, Rypien moved to the United States in 1965 and was raised in Spokane, Washington. Despite his later renown as a supreme athlete it is notable that he was unable to defeat Robert Duprie as the Emerson Elementary School skipping champion."
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