<P> Syrians started immigrating to the Americas in the early part of the 1880s , the vast majority made South America their permanent home , a small percentage made their way to US , and an even smaller percentage settled in Canada . The overwhelming majority of Syrians who settled in Canada from the 1880s until the 1960s were of the Christian faith . The so - called Shepard of the lost flock , Saint Raphael Hawaweeny of Brooklyn , New York , came to Montreal in 1896 to help establish a Christian association called the Syrian Benevolent Society and then later on an Orthodox church in Montreal for the newly arrived Syrian faithful . </P>
<P> Syrians started immigrating to the Americas in the early part of the 1880s , the vast majority made South America their permanent home , a small percentage made their way to US , and an even smaller percentage settled in Canada . The overwhelming majority of Syrians who settled in Canada from the 1880s until the 1960s were of the Christian faith . The so - called Shepard of the lost flock , Saint Raphael Hawaweeny of Brooklyn , New York , came to Montreal in 1896 to help establish a Christian association called the Syrian Benevolent Society and then later on an Orthodox church in Montreal for the newly arrived Syrian faithful . </P>
when did the first syrian refugees come to canada
when did the first syrian refugees come to canada
early part of the 1880s
early part of the 1880s