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==Early life== Kroeger was born Chad Robert Turton in [[Hanna, Alberta]], on November 15, 1974.<ref name="allmusic.com2">{{cite web|last=Leahey |first=Andrew |url={{AllMusic|class=artist |id=p410589 |pure_url=yes}} |title=Nickelback |website=[[AllMusic]] |date=November 13, 2008 |access-date=2011-11-06| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150401190954/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/chad-kroeger-mn0000189008/biography| archive-date= April 1, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="DUI">{{cite web|url=http://www.dui.com/dui-library/celebrities/chad-kroeger-dui/nickelback-singer-sentenced-for-dui|title=Nickelback Singer Sentenced for DUI|publisher=DUI.com|date=May 2, 2008|access-date=September 22, 2010}}</ref> His maternal grandfather, politician [[Henry Kroeger]], was born in Rosenthal, [[Chortitza Colony]], [[Yekaterinoslav Governorate]] (now [[Zaporizhzhia]], [[Ukraine]]) to a [[Russian Mennonites|Mennonite]] family of Prussian descent.<ref name=praire>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nickelbacks-prairie-roots/|title=Nickelback's Prairie Roots|first=Brian D.|last=Johnson}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/hardpassagemenno00kroe_0|url-access=registration|title=Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada|first=Arthur|last=Kroeger|date=January 1, 2007|publisher=University of Alberta|isbn=9780888644732|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> After his father left the family when he was two, he started going by his mother's maiden name of Kroeger.<ref name=praire /> He learned to play the guitar at age 13. His youth was sometimes troubled, and he was sent to juvenile detention for breaking into his junior high school.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chad Kroeger News |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/chad-kroeger/ |access-date=2022-09-21 |website=Us Weekly |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Nickelback's Chad Kroeger - Getting Locked Up as a Kid, Playing on 9/11 + More |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnEXn_d2eS0 |language=en |access-date=2022-09-21}}</ref>
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