Deux siècles de présence à Montréal

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Deux siècles de présence à Montréal
Abstract
A short history of the Jewish presence in Quebec from 1760 onward. From the turn of the nineteenth century, most Jews lived in Montreal, the economic center of both Quebec and Canada. However, until the middle of the nineteenth century, only a few dozen Jewish families lived in the province, and their presence was inconspicuous. The mass migration of Jews into Montreal began slowly in the middle of the nineteenth century, with an influx of Jewish immigrants from Great Britain, and then large numbers of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1931, there were an estimated 60,000 Jews living in Montreal, the third largest ethnic group after French Canadians and British (English, Scottish and Irish) Canadians. By 1971, there were an estimated 116,000 Jews living in the province, a number that declined to 95,000 by the late 1980s. While most of these Jews integrated into the city's Anglophone community, French-speaking Jewish immigrants from North Africa began arriving after 1948, and by 1990 comprised twenty percent of Montreal's Jewish community. The author describes the influence of Jews on Montreal, especially in the architecture of their synagogues and socio-cultural and medical buildings.
Publication
Continuité
Volume
No. 45
Pages
32-35
Date
Automne 1989
Language
fr
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Anctil, Pierre. “Deux siècles de présence à Montréal.” Continuité No. 45 (Automne 1989): 32–35. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/continuite/1989-n45-continuite1053216/607ac.pdf.
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