Arabs

Arab immigration to Canada began in the last two decades of the nineteenth century and, with only a few interruptions, continued well into the 1990s. The early Arab immigrants came almost entirely from a small region in Syria on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, but their post–World War II counterparts hailed from virtually all the countries which comprise the Arab world. According to the 1991 Canadian census, there were 204,000 Canadians who claimed they were wholly (151,125) or in part of Arab ethnic origins. (See also EGYPTIANS; IRAQIS; LEBANESE; PALESTINIANS; SOMALIS; SYRIANS. EGYPTIANS; IRAQIS; LEBANESE; PALESTINIANS; SOMALIS; SYRIANS.)