Lemniwinks is of Dutch and mixed Irish/Scottish decent. While he does not know much about his Irish/Scottish ancestry, he is able to trace his Dutch heritage back at least 1000 years, thanks to the help of an accomplished relative who put years worth of work into a family tree project. After 1000 years of living in the Netherlands, his family moved to Canada after the Second World War to escape war torn Europe and find a better life. Lemniwinks is only the second generation of his family's long Dutch roots to be Canadian.
Initially very unaware and ignorant of the world (he use to think China was sown in South America), Lemniwinks was inspired into Politics by watching the 2008 American election. He was in awe of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, a woman and a black man, shredding off hinges holding them back and going for the highest office in the USA. He remembers watching the Primaries attentively three years ago, which would put him at the age of 14-15. Since then he has learned a lot about politics, history and the world in general.