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Egyptian Canadians - Wikipedia

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Egyptian Canadians
Égypto-Canadiens
كنديين مصريين
Total population
105,245 (by ancestry, 2021 Census)^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Ontario	54,210^[2]
Quebec	30,240^[3]
Alberta	9,585^[4]
British Columbia	5,810^[5]
Languages
Egyptian Arabic, Coptic, Sa'idi Arabic, Canadian English, Canadian French
Religion
Christianity (56%), Islam (33%), Irreligion (8%), Jewish (2%) and other (1%)
Related ethnic groups
Egyptians, Egyptian diaspora

Egyptian Canadians (Egyptian Arabic: كنديين مصريين) are Canadian citizens of Egyptian descent, first-generation Egyptian immigrants, or descendants of Egyptians who emigrated to Canada. According to the 2011 Census there were 73,250 Canadian citizens who are from Egypt,^[6] having an increase compared to those in the 2006 Census.

Egyptian-Canadians are mainly either Christians or Muslims. Most Christians are Coptic Orthodox with small numbers of Coptic Catholic and Coptic Protestant. Muslims are mostly Sunni.

During the 1960s, 75% of Egyptian immigrants settled in Montreal. By 1991, 49% of Egyptian Canadians were in Quebec, whereas 41% were living in Ontario. By 2011, 54% of Egyptian Canadians were living in Ontario and 31% in Quebec.^[7] Most Egyptian Canadians are concentrated in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Religion

Throughout the 1970s, immigrants from Egypt to Canada consisted of both Christians and Muslims, who mostly left due to poverty in their home country.^[7] Starting in 1985, the Canadian government encouraged investors to immigrate, which attracted wealthy Egyptians; these are described as "more conservative and less exposed to European influences than previous arrivals”.^[7]

A 1989 survey of Egyptian Canadians in Quebec found that 35% were Copts, 20% Catholics, and 19% Muslims, while 13% followed other faiths and 12% did not indicate any religion.^[8]

The 2011 Census found that 73,250 people reported "Egyptian" ancestry and 3,570 reported "Coptic" ancestry.^[6] It also found that 16,255 people reported Coptic Orthodox church as their religion.^[9]

Egyptian Canadians by Canadian province or territory (2016)

Province	Population	Percentage	Source
Ontario	52,840	0.4%	^[10]
Quebec	29,400	0.4%	^[11]
Alberta	8,530	0.2%	^[12]
British Columbia	4,520	0.1%	^[13]
Manitoba	1,340	0.1%	^[14]
Nova Scotia	800	0.1%	^[15]
Saskatchewan	540	0.1%	^[16]
Newfoundland and Labrador	320	0.1%	^[17]
New Brunswick	210	0.0%	^[18]
Prince Edward Island	115	0.1%	^[19]
Northwest Territories	10	0.0%	^[20]
Nunavut	10	0.0%	^[21]
Yukon	10	0.0%	^[22]
Canada	99,140	0.3%	^[23]

Notable people

Sheref Sabawy – Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario, first elected of Egyptian origion
Athena Karkanis – film actor, voice actor
Maryse Andraos – writer
Manuel Tadros – singer, songwriter, actor, comedian and voice actor
Xavier Dolan – filmmaker, son of Manuel Tadros
Mohamed Fahmy – journalist, author
Jean Mohsen Fahmy – writer
Alex Erian – one of the two vocalists of Despised Icon
Mena Massoud – actor
Yasmine Mohammed – human rights activist, author
Ariel Helwani – sports journalist, born in Canada to an Egyptian Jewish father and Lebanese Jewish mother
Omar Marmoush – footballer, born in Egypt to Egyptian-Canadian parents and has dual Egyptian-Canadian citizenship
Noor Naga – writer
Adel Sedra – electrical engineer and University Professor
Marcus Youssef – playwright

References

^ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Canada [Country]". 9 February 2022.
^ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Ontario [Province]". 9 February 2022.
^ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Quebec [Province]". 9 February 2022.
^ "Census Profile, 2021 Census, Statistics Canada - Validation Error".
^ "Profile table, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population - Alberta [Province]". 9 February 2022.
^ ^a ^b Statistics Canada (8 May 2013). "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables". Retrieved 11 February 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c André Fecteau. "An Identity and an Uprising: The Politicization of Egyptian Canadians in Ottawa" (PDF). pp. 29–31.
^ "Multicultural Canada: the Coptic Orthodox form the largest number of Egyptian Canadians, while there are small - but notable - minorities such as the skid and Muslims, respectively". Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2008-06-14.
^ "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables – Religion (108), Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (11), Age Groups (10) and Sex (3) for the Population in Private Households of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 National Household Survey". 8 May 2013.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Ontario, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Quebec, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Alberta, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), British Columbia, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Manitoba, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Nova Scotia, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Saskatchewan, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Newfoundland and Labrador, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), New Brunswick, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Prince Edward Island, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Northwest Territories, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Nunavut, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Yukon, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 25 October 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^ "Immigration and Ethnocultural Diversity Highlight Tables". statcan.gc.ca. 25 October 2017.

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Ethnic origins of people in Canada

Canada

Africa

Horn of Africa	Eritrean Ethiopian Somali
North Africa	Berber Algerian Libyan Moroccan Tunisian Coptic Egyptian
East Africa	South Sudanese Sudanese
Southern Africa	South African Zimbabwean
West Africa	Ghanaian Nigerian Igbo Yoruba

Americas

North America	American Mexican
Caribbean	Barbadian Cuban Dominican Guyanese Haitian Jamaican Puerto Rican Trinidadian and Tobagonian
Central and South America	Argentine Brazilian Chilean Colombian Guatemalan Peruvian Salvadoran Uruguayan Venezuelan

Asia

Central Asia	Afghan Kazakh Tajik Tatar Uzbek
East Asia	Chinese Hong Kong Japanese Korean Mongolian Taiwanese Tibetan
South Asia	Bangladeshi Indian Anglo-Indian Tamil Nepali Pakistani Punjabi Romani Sri Lankan
Southeast Asia	Cambodian Filipino Indonesian Laotian Malaysian Singaporean Thai Vietnamese
West Asia	Arab Iraqi Jordanian Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Syrian Yemeni Armenian Assyrian Azerbaijani Iranian Jewish Israeli Kurdish Turkish

Europe

Central Europe	Austrian Czech German Hungarian Polish Slovak Slovenian Swiss
Eastern Europe	Belarusian Russian Ukrainian
Northern Europe	Nordic and Scandinavian Danish Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish Estonian Latvian Lithuanian
Southeast Europe	Albanian Bosnian Bulgarian Croatian Greek Macedonian Montenegrin Romanian Serbian Yugoslav
Southern Europe	Italian Maltese Portuguese Spanish Basque
Western Europe	Belgian Flemish British Cornish English Scotch-Irish Scottish Welsh Dutch French Acadians Breton Québécois Irish Luxembourger

Oceania

v t e Arab Canadians by state of origin
Africa	Algerian Egyptian Libyan Moroccan Somali Sudanese Tunisian
Asia	Iraqi Jordanian Lebanese Palestinian Saudi Syrian Yemeni
Related topics	Asian Canadians
Based on state membership in the Arab League.

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Religion

Egyptian Canadians by Canadian province or territory (2016)

Notable people

See also

References

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