Fraser Aird, a Scarborough teen, and someone who has featured in the Canadian Youth national team set up, has made the jump overseas, signing a professional contract with the Glasgow Rangers.
He still start with the Rangers U-17 set up but club officials say they expect him to rise through the ranks quickly, finding a place on the U-19s shortly.
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You can read a great feature on Aird here, by the Toronto Star's Daniel Girard and you can find his national team stats here.
We don't get to report these kinds of success stories very often. But over the past few years I've witnessed an upswing of solid links between Europe and Canada - through FIFA agents (Aird's is Sanford Carabin), families and youth clubs. North America is widely considered the last frontier for football in the world and European clubs are starting to stake their claim.
Today, Aird's story in Canada is an exception and not the rule. In the next ten years, I'd suspect his will just be another story in the steady stream.