History of the Jews in Canada

Canadian Jews
Juifs canadiens (French)
יהודים קנדים‎ (Hebrew)
Total population
 Canada 404,015 (as of 2021)[1]
1.4% of the Canadian population[2][3][4]
Regions with significant populations
 Ontario272,400
 Quebec125,300
 British Columbia62,120
 Alberta20,000
 Manitoba18,000
Languages
English · French (among Québécois) · Hebrew (as liturgical language, some as mother tongue) · Yiddish (by some as mother tongue and as part of a language revival· and other languages like Russian, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Polish, German, Moroccan Arabic
Religion
Judaism
Related ethnic groups
Israeli Canadians

Canadian Jews, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion, form the fourth largest Jewish community in the world, exceeded only by those in Israel, the United States and France.[1][5][6] As of 2021, Statistics Canada listed 335,295 Jews in Canada.[7][8] This total would account for approximately 1.4% of the Canadian population.

The Jewish community in Canada is composed predominantly of Ashkenazi Jews. Other Jewish ethnic divisions are also represented and include Sephardi Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and Bene Israel. A number of converts to Judaism make up the Jewish-Canadian community, which manifests a wide range of Jewish cultural traditions and the full spectrum of Jewish religious observance. Though they are a small minority, they have had an open presence in the country since the first Jewish immigrants arrived with Governor Edward Cornwallis to establish Halifax, Nova Scotia (1749).[9]

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  2. ^ Shahar, Charles (2011). "The Jewish Population of Canada – 2016 National Household Survey". Berman Jewish Databank. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  3. ^ "Basic Demographics of the Canadian Jewish Community". The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. 2011. Archived from the original on December 2, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  4. ^ "Jewish Population of the World". Jewish Virtual Library. 2012. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  5. ^ "JEWISH POPULATION IN THE WORLD AND IN ISRAEL" (PDF). CBS. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2011. Retrieved November 22, 2011. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^ "The Canadian Jewish Experience". Jcpa.org. October 16, 1975. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
  7. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (February 9, 2022). "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Canada [Country]". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
  8. ^ "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables: Ethnic Origin". Statistics Canada. 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  9. ^ Sheldon Godfrey and Judy Godfrey. Search Out the Land" The Jews and the Growth of Equality in British Colonial America, 1740–1867. McGill Queen's University Press. 1997. pp. 76–77;Bell, Winthrop Pickard. The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia:The History of a piece of arrested British Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth Century. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961

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