From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Assyrians/Arian Ishaya
The history of Assyrians is recounted in the well-documented study by John Joseph, The Nestorians and their Muslim Neighbors (Princeton, N.J., 1961), while a history of the ancient Church of the East and the Canterbury mission among the Assyrians can be found in J.F. Coakley, The Church of the East and the Church of England (Oxford, U.K., 1992).
A general study of Assyrian emigration is provided by Joseph Yacoub, “La diaspora assyro-chaldeenne,” L’Espace géographique, vol.1 (1994), 29–37, while a concise portrait of Assyrian immigrant settlements in the United States can be found in Arian Ishaya and E. Naby, “Assyrians,” in Stephan Thernstrom et al., eds.,Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups (Cambridge, Mass., 1980).
Information on Assyrian immigrant colonies in Canada was first published in J.S. Woodsworth, ,Strangers within Our Gates, or Coming Canadians (Toronto, 3rd ed., 1911), which was reissued with an introduction by Marilyn Barber in 1972. Somewhat more recent information is provided by C. Wetton, “Fled from Tyranny to Settle in Saskatchewan,” Saskatoon Star Phoenix (1949), and by Arian Ishaya, The Role of Minorities in the State: History of the Assyrian Experience (Winnipeg, 1977). The latter discusses both Assyrians in the homeland and those in North America.
