46. Do you have any information about the Lebanese community in Canada?
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This article is from the Lebanon FAQ, by Alaa Dakroub dakroub@leb.net with numerous contributions by others.
46. Do you have any information about the Lebanese community in Canada?
The Lebanese community in Canada is one of the largest outside
of Lebanon. It numbers some 175,000, more than 66% reside in the city of
Montreal in the province of Québec, and almost 20% in the Provice of
Ontario.
The Lebanese community in Canada is distributed as follows:
Canada Total 175,000 City Province Size - Montreal, Québec: 110,000 - Ottawa, Ontario: 23,000 - Toronto, Ontario: 8,000 - Québec City, Québec: 5,000 - Calgary, Alberta: 5,000 - Edomonto, Alberta: 5,000 - Windsor, Ontario: 2,000 - Gatineau, Québec: 2,000 - Vancouver, British Columbia: 1,000 - London/Hamilton, Ontario: 2,000 - Halifax, Nova Scotia: 2,000 - Winnipeg, Manitoba: 1,000
The first recorded Lebanese immigration to Canada was in 1880.
The first Lebanese grocery store in Ottawa on Elgin Street: Bouchey's in
1882.
Montreal has the largest Lebanese community in North America.
There are about 10 Lebanese supermarkets in Montreal and another 10 in
Ottawa.
The best known Lebanese newspaper in Canada is al-Moustkbal (11,000
copies weekly) and is distributed in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto.
Arabic books are sold at Middle East Bookstore on Décarie street in
Montreal and in al-Mutawasset Bookstore in Toronto.
The Lebanese community has about 30 performing artists specially in
Lebanese pop and folk music.
A word on non-Lebanese Arab communities in Canada is useful:
Other Arab Canadians (90,000) concentrate in Toronto and Montreal: the
Maghrebine (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria) community (20,000) and the
Egyptian community (50,000) reside mainly in Montreal, while eastern
Arabs (Jordanians, Plaestinians,Iraqis, Syrians) (35,000) reside mainly
in Toronto. There are smaller Arab communities around Canada numbering
less than 1,000 each.
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