Muslim presence in Canada dates back to the arrival of first Muslim settlers who came to the Canadian prairies with the opening of Alberta and Saskatchewan fordevelopment at the turn of the last century.Since the end of World War II, Canada emerged as the land of immigrants attracting people of numerous skills and talents from the ends of the earth. Peopleof Muslim faith mostly from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia and some from Europe came here to begin a new home and a promising life.
Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: 'When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet.