By Eva Sajoo – How much of who we are is shaped by where we come from, and where we are? For SFU’s Derryl MacLean, the impact is decisive. His lecture on the making of Vancouver’s Muslim community — part of the university’s So you think you know Vancouver series — was delivered to a large crowd at Harbour Centre on November 24.
The first recorded presence of Muslims in Canada was in 1871. In Vancouver, Muslim immigrants were visible in 1931. Unlike in other parts of Canada, the Muslim community in this city is predominantly South Asian – yet most did not arrive here from India or Pakistan. Instead, they first migrated to East Africa and Fiji, where they remained for several generations. Political upheavals in the early 1970s, especially in countries like Uganda and Tanzania, brought the largest groups of Muslim immigrants to Vancouver.
via The Muslim next door: becoming local in Vancouver | The Vancouver Observer.
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