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language">Kurdish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkmen_language" title="Turkmen language">Turkmen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aramaic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Aramaic language">Aramaic</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color:#b0c4de;">Religion</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a>, <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Druze" title="Druze">Druze</a> and <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Syrian Canadians</b> refers to Canadians who claim <a href="/wiki/Syrian" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian">Syrian</a> ancestry and newcomers who have Syrian citizenship. According to the <a href="/wiki/Canada_2016_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="Canada 2016 Census">2016 Census</a>, there were 77,050 Syrian Canadians compared to the <a href="/wiki/Canada_2011_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="Canada 2011 Census">2011 Census</a> where there were 50,840.<sup id="cite_ref-Statistics_Canada_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Statistics_Canada-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syrian_Canadians&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Syrians started immigrating to the <a href="/wiki/Americas" title="Americas">Americas</a> in the early part of the 1880s, while the vast majority migrated to <a href="/wiki/South_America" title="South America">South America</a>, a small percentage made their way to <a href="/wiki/America" class="mw-redirect" title="America">America</a>, and an even smaller percentage settled in <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>. 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The so-called Shepard of the lost flock, <a href="/wiki/Raphael_of_Brooklyn" title="Raphael of Brooklyn">Saint Raphael Hawaweeny</a> of <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn, New York</a>, came to <a href="/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a> in <a href="/wiki/1896" title="1896">1896</a> to help establish a <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christian</a> association called the <i>Syrian Benevolent Society</i> and then later on an <a href="/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Antioch" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch">Orthodox church</a> in Montreal for the newly arrived Syrian faithful.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since <a href="/wiki/Justin_Trudeau" title="Justin Trudeau">Justin Trudeau</a> was elected as <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada" title="Prime Minister of Canada">Prime Minister of Canada</a> in 2015, over 25,000 Syrian <a href="/wiki/Refugees" class="mw-redirect" title="Refugees">refugees</a> have settled in Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demography">Demography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syrian_Canadians&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Demography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syrian_Canadians&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Syrian Canadian demography by religion </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2">Religious group </th> <th colspan="2">2021<sup id="cite_ref-religion2021_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-religion2021-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Religion2021_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Religion2021-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <th><a href="/wiki/Population" title="Population"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></a> </th> <th><abbr title="percentage">%</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> </td> <td>47,895 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="7001487480916030534♠" style="display:none"></span>48.75% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> </td> <td>39,115 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="7001398117048346056♠" style="display:none"></span>39.81% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">Irreligion</a> </td> <td>9,365 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="7000953180661577608♠" style="display:none"></span>9.53% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a> </td> <td>595 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="6999605597964376590♠" style="display:none"></span>0.61% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hinduism" title="Hinduism">Hinduism</a> </td> <td>35 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="6998356234096692111♠" style="display:none"></span>0.04% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Buddhism" title="Buddhism">Buddhism</a> </td> <td>20 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="6998203562340966921♠" style="display:none"></span>0.02% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mythologies_of_the_indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas" class="mw-redirect" title="Mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas">Indigenous spirituality</a> </td> <td>20 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="6998203562340966921♠" style="display:none"></span>0.02% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Sikhism" title="Sikhism">Sikhism</a> </td> <td>10 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="6998101781170483460♠" style="display:none"></span>0.01% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Major_religious_groups" title="Major religious groups">Other</a> </td> <td>1,200 </td> <td><span data-sort-value="7000122137404580152♠" style="display:none"></span>1.22% </td></tr> <tr> <th>Total Syrian Canadian population </th> <th>98,250 </th> <th><span data-sort-value="7002100000000000000♠" style="display:none"></span>100% </th></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economic_life">Economic life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syrian_Canadians&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Economic life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The leading factor for the immigration of Syrians has been to find better employment. The early immigrants found themselves engaging in basic commerce, with the term 'peddler' becoming almost synonymous with 'Syrian'.<sup id="cite_ref-MystofCanada_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MystofCanada-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of these peddlers were successful, and, with time, and after raising enough capital, some became importers and wholesalers, recruiting newcomers and supplying them with merchandise. Others opened small businesses in urban centers all over the country.<sup id="cite_ref-Syriatoday_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Syriatoday-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later, these merchants would go towards larger urban locations, where the economy was improving. Smaller number of Syrians worked as laborers in factories, miners, or as plumbers. Also, some became pioneers in the Southern prairie regions of <a href="/wiki/Western_Canada" title="Western Canada">Western Canada</a>, and worked in farming.<sup id="cite_ref-Syriatoday_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Syriatoday-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These workers settled in communities such as <a href="/wiki/Swift_Current" title="Swift Current">Swift Current</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan">Saskatchewan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lac_La_Biche,_Alberta" title="Lac La Biche, Alberta">Lac La Biche</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta">Alberta</a>. Few reached the <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories" title="Northwest Territories">Northwest Territories</a>, the best known being <a href="/wiki/Peter_Baker_(Canadian_politician)" title="Peter Baker (Canadian politician)">Peter Baker</a>, author of the book <i>An Arctic Arab</i>, and later <a href="/wiki/Northwest_Territories_general_election,_1964" class="mw-redirect" title="Northwest Territories general election, 1964">elected</a> as a member of the legislative assembly of the Northwest Territories. By the 1930s, many towns in the <a href="/wiki/Maritimes" class="mw-redirect" title="Maritimes">Maritimes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Quebec" title="Quebec">Quebec</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ontario" title="Ontario">Ontario</a>, and Western Canada had one or more retail stores run by Syrian immigrants.<sup id="cite_ref-Multicultural_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Multicultural-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Women also worked occasionally, in addition to housekeeping, and usually helped run the family store if they had one, and in the cities they would sell goods from door to door.<sup id="cite_ref-Multicultural_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Multicultural-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_Syrian_Canadians">Notable Syrian Canadians</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syrian_Canadians&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Notable Syrian Canadians"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omar_Alghabra" title="Omar Alghabra">Omar Alghabra</a>, former Minister of Transport and Member of Parliament from <a href="/wiki/Mississauga_Centre_(federal_electoral_district)" title="Mississauga Centre (federal electoral district)">Mississauga Centre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Ang%C3%A9lil" title="René Angélil">René Angélil</a>, Canadian singer and manager (father was of <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syrian</a> descent)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Anka" title="Paul Anka">Paul Anka</a>, Canadian singer and songwriter (father was <a href="/wiki/Syria" title="Syria">Syrian</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feras_Antoon" title="Feras Antoon">Feras Antoon</a>, businessman</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ayah_Bdeir" title="Ayah Bdeir">Ayah Bdeir</a>, entrepreneur and founder of <a href="/wiki/LittleBits" title="LittleBits">LittleBits</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tirone_E._David" title="Tirone E. David">Tirone E. David</a>, cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a>. Known for developing the "<a href="/wiki/David_procedure" class="mw-redirect" title="David procedure">David Operation</a>”.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Clement" title="Tony Clement">Tony Clement</a>, Canadian Member of Parliament from <a href="/wiki/Parry_Sound%E2%80%94Muskoka_(federal_electoral_district)" title="Parry Sound—Muskoka (federal electoral district)">Parry Sound-Muskoka</a>. Mother of Syrian descent.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moshe_Safdie" title="Moshe Safdie">Moshe Safdie</a>, architect who designed <a href="/wiki/Marina_Bay_Sands" title="Marina Bay Sands">Marina Bay Sands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jewel_Changi_Airport" title="Jewel Changi Airport">Jewel Changi Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dov_Charney" title="Dov Charney">Dov Charney</a>, founder of <a href="/wiki/American_Apparel" title="American Apparel">American Apparel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Apparel" title="Los Angeles Apparel">Los Angeles Apparel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Hamad" title="Sam Hamad">Sam Hamad</a>, former Member of the Quebec National Assembly (MNA) for the riding of <a href="/wiki/Louis-H%C3%A9bert_(federal_electoral_district)" title="Louis-Hébert (federal electoral district)">Louis-Hebert</a> and former Quebec Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamal_Murray" title="Jamal Murray">Jamal Murray</a>, NBA basketball player</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Kachkar" title="Jack Kachkar">Jack Kachkar</a>, Syrian Canadian businessman of Armenian descent</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wiz_Kilo" title="Wiz Kilo">Wiz Kilo</a>, Canadian hip hop and R&B artist</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruba_Nadda" title="Ruba Nadda">Ruba Nadda</a>, Canadian film director of mixed Syrian-Palestinian origin</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sami_Zayn" title="Sami Zayn">Rami Sebei</a>, Canadian professional wrestler best known for his work under the ring name El Generico, currently signed to WWE under the ring name Sami Zayn</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sammy_Yatim" class="mw-redirect" title="Sammy Yatim">Sammy Yatim</a>, Canadian shot by a Toronto police officer</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molham_Babouli" title="Molham Babouli">Molham Babouli</a>, Syrian Canadian professional soccer player for <a href="/wiki/York_United" class="mw-redirect" title="York United">York United</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Syrian_national_football_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Syrian national football team">Syrian national football team</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popular_culture">Popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syrian_Canadians&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Sabah_(film)" title="Sabah (film)">Sabah</a></i>, a 2005 film directed by Ruba Nadda, portrays a Syrian Canadian family in Toronto. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Syrian_Canadians&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span 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