History
Emigration from Iraq to Canada has increased dramatically due to political and economic situations in Iraq. The Iraq-Iran War resulted in many immigrants, while destroying the Iraqi economy and being oppressed by the 13 year economic sanctions against Iraq that have followed the Gulf War of 1990–91; there was all the more reason to emigrate abroad. From 1945 until 1975 fewer than 200 Iraqis arrived in Canada emigration had substaintially increased in 1979, the year Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq. Between 1975 and 1992, 6,472 Iraqis arrived in Canada establishing about 3.5 percent of all Arab immigrants in Canada. About 65 percent of Iraqis have settled in Quebec,and most of the remainder in Montreal; and British Columbia, particularly in Vancouver, adjacent to Seattle, Washington in the USA. Many Iraqis also live in the Detroit area with Windsor, Ontario and the Toronto areas. There are equal numbers from both males and females.
The 1991 Canadian census recorded 4,790 Iraqis; 3,525 of wholly Iraqi ancestry, and 1,265 of partial Iraqi ancestry. Iraqi immigrants through the period of 1981-1992 settled principally in a few cities in Canada: British Columbia (362), Alberta (268), Quebec (203), Ontario (176), and Manitoba (152).
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