OurLadyOfLebanon.org
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Our Lady Of Lebanon home page
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At the end of the nineteenth century, Lebanese emigration moved to North America, and the first arrivals to Canada were settled in the Port Cities of Saint John, New Brunswick and Halifax, Nova Scotia. From there they expanded to the other regions of Canada, where they have continued to enrich the cultural fabric of their adopted country.
The 1880 Lebanese Maronite settlers were called Turks, Syrians, Assyrians and arabs. They did not have a chance to deny these false attributions, or to claim their Lebanese origin, until some members of the small Maronite community volunteered in the Royal Canadian Legion.
The Lebanese Maronite settlers were active and respected members of the Roman Catholic Churches wherever they settled. They have also proven to be invaluable additions to their respective Canadian communities, both in private and public life. In 1907, the community in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia invited a Maronite priest Rev. Louis Soaib, to visit their small community, and with the agreement of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Antigonish, he founded the Church of St. Joseph. Two years later in 1909, Rev. Louis Soaib, on the invitation of the Bishop and the larger Community of Sydney and North Sydney NS., traded the tiny Church of St. Joseph with St. Patrick's Church on the Esplanade in Sydney N. S.. He served this community till 195 1, and later died in 1955. In the sixties, the Maronite Church of St. Patrick became a heritage museum, in witness of the great religious and social work this priest had done.
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