Image copyright Afraa Bilan Image caption Afraa Bilan and sleepy Justin Trudeau take it easy at home 
 
 When Muhammad and Afraa Bilan arrived in Canada in February last year, they were starting a new life in a completely new country. 
 
 Originally from Damascus in Syria, they, daughter Naya and son Nael arrived as refugees in Montreal in the depths of winter. 
 
 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn't there to greet them at the airport, as he did with other Syrian refugees. 
 
 But the couple felt they had to give their thanks to him in some way - so have named their newborn son after him. 
 
 Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan was born on Thursday in his parents' new city of Calgary. (His first name is Justin Trudeau, not Justin, by the way.) 
 
 In Damascus, Muhammad, now 29, worked as a barber. But he had once been targeted by the Syrian army and detained. 
 
 After he was freed, his family learned the authorities were looking for him again, and that he could face further detention - a fate from which many have not emerged. 
 
 Their chance to leave came when they found out Canada was starting to take in Syrian refugees after Mr Trudeau took office. Five years into Syria's war, they jumped at the chance. 
 
 Image copyright Facebook/Muhammad Bilan Image caption Muhammad Bilan with baby Justin Trudeau 
 
 Image copyright Facebook/Sam Nammoura Image caption Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan was born on Thursday in Calgary 
 
 After spending some time in Montreal, in the eastern province of Quebec, the family was eventually moved to Calgary, in the western province of Alberta. 
 
 "Canada is much more safe - there's no war, nothing," Afraa Bilan told the BBC by telephone. "Everything is different, everything is good - nothing like Syria." 
 
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 Afraa admitted to having been "a little bit distressed" on arriving in Canada, and to have found it difficult to adapt - especially to the winter weather. 
 
 But she now speaks fluent English and Muhammad works part-time in a grocery shop. 
 
 Image copyright Reuters Image caption This is not the only Justin Trudeau in Canada 
 
 They hope baby Justin Trudeau will one day meet his rather more famous namesake. 
 
 "He is a really nice man," Afraa said. "He helped us a lot. This was a small thank you for bringing us to Canada. We want to thank him and all the Canadian people." 
 
 Between November 2015, when Mr Trudeau became prime minister, and January this year, more than 40,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in Canada. About 1,000 of them moved to Calgary. 
 
 In late January, after US President Donald Trump imposed a ban on immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, Mr Trudeau took to social media to confirm his government's commitment to helping "those fleeing persecution, terror & war". 
 
 In Ontario in February, another Syrian couple named their newborn Justin in tribute to the prime minister, but Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan is thought to be the first baby Justin Trudeau (not counting the original Justin Trudeau, of course). ||||| At the Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, around 6 pm on Thursday, May 4, a mother named Afraa Bilan gave birth to her own Justin Trudeau. 
 
 The 22-year-old mother and her husband, Muhammad Bilan, 29, are refugees from Damascus who arrived in Canada last February. Out of gratitude to the Prime Minister for accepting them into the country, they gave their baby the first name Justin Trudeau—the space is part of his first name—with a middle name Adam, and a last name Bilan. “We liked to put Justin Trudeau as a first name,” says Afraa, “because we love this person because, you know, he brought all the refugees to Canada, and we appreciate him.” 
 
 Baby Justin Trudeau has two older siblings, Naya and Nael, aged four and two. “We hope [he will] get a nice chance to meet Justin Trudeau,” says Afraa, and “also [have] a good life in Canada.” 
 
 Here are some moments from Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan’s first day.
– At last count, more than 40,000 Syrian refugees had made Canada their new home since November 2015. Now the Toronto Star reports that two of their number have thanked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his efforts with the ultimate compliment: They named their baby after him. Justin Trudeau Adam Bilan (and the BBC notes his first name is Justin Trudeau, not just Justin) was born Thursday in a Calgary hospital, the third child of Afraa and Muhammad Bilan, who arrived in the country in February 2016, their two young children in tow. "We love this man, we appreciate him," Afraa tells the Star, adding their new little JT is the first official Canadian in their family. "He got his citizenship before us!" The Bilans, who were from war-ravaged Damascus, faced an uncertain future there when Muhammad, a barber, found himself on the Syrian army's radar. After he was detained and released, the family heard about Trudeau's initiative to welcome Syrian refugees to Canada and made their way there. Trudeau wasn't at the airport when they arrived—the Independent notes he handed out winter coats at the Toronto airport when the first Syrian refugees under his tenure touched down in December 2015—but the Bilan family still feels a connection. Although the cold weather threw them at first, as did the language barrier, Afraa has since become fluent in English, and Muhammad works part-time in a grocery store. "Canada is much more safe—there's no war, nothing," Afraa tells the BBC. "Everything is different, everything is good—nothing like Syria." Check out a photo album of baby Justin Trudeau's first day at Maclean's. (Trudeau says Canada will take the refugees rejected by the US.)