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An Arab community in the Canadian northwest: a preliminary discussion of the Lebanese community in Lac La Biche Alberta
Anthropologica • 10 (2) • Published In 1968 • Pages: 143-156
By: Barclay, Harold B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In 1967, 244 Arab-Canadians of Lebanese descent lived in the Lac La Biche area of east central Alberta. The original immigrants all come from two neighboring villages in Lebanon and 30 percent belong to one lineage; most immigrated in the years following the Second World War. All but one have since married within the Lebanese-Muslim group, some returning to their original villages in Lebanon to find wives. Two-thirds of the Lebanese-born married men engage in mink ranching. Two elite families dominate the local community. There is little interaction between the Lebanese and other ethnic groups. The Métis supply the farmers fish for their mink, shop in Lebanese stores, and rent Lebanese-owned rooms and houses.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Retail marketing
- Community structure
- Inter-ethnic relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Arab Canadians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1905-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lac La Biche, Alberta
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Harold B. Barclay
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56004160
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Arabs--Canada