Everyone here knows it: it often snows in the Maghreb. We’re used to it, you just have to close the hatches when the thermometer drops below minus 30°C. The rest of the time it’s full. People do their shopping there, visit aid and integration associations, chat with neighbors or take a break in shisha bars. At the weekend, some even come from Boston or New York to try it out“house smell”, as we say in Algeria. Only detail, there are no palm trees. And with good reason: the Maghreb, or rather the small Maghreb, with its 120 merchants installed on a one-kilometer artery, is in the heart of Montreal.
No wonder. Since the great wave of emigration in the 1990s, when the civil war caused tens of thousands of Algerians to leave their country to seek refuge in Canada, the Algerian community has been one of the most dynamic in Quebec, where more than 90% of Algerians live members. In 2021, the French-speaking province had nearly 73,000 Algerian-born immigrants. If you add the Moroccans, the total Maghreb population (more than 141,000) far exceeds that of the French (93,000).
Who are you and why did you choose distant Canada and not nearby France? Every journey is unique, and motivations change from generation to generation. To the political refugees of the 1990s – emigrants often over 40 without p
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