Jews in Canada

Journal article

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In Journal Issue

Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, 1, 6 (1941)

Author(s) Louise Rosenberg AbstractThe historical connection between Jews and Canada dates back to the French occupation at the beginning of the 17th Century. The archives of that period show not only that quite a few merchants, officers and missionaries who came to "New France" bore names revealing a Marrano ancestry, and boasted of family traditions of Jewish origin, but also that much of the early trade between France and Canada was carried on by. Jewish merchants of Bordeaux, among whom the name of the Grabs family was prominent. Nevertheless it was not until the British conquest of French Canada in 1763 that Jews began to settle permanently and legally in Canada, for an edict of the French King had previously prohibited the presence of professing Jews in the French colonies.
Year1941
Pages184-192