Minister Abbas Halabi revealed in his book, “The Unitarian Druze: Culture, History, and Message,” that the Unitarian Druze in Canada are no fewer in number than their brethren in America.
He pointed to the presence of a large Druze community in “Edmonton,” most of whose members came from the Western Beqaa and Rashaya, specifically the town of Yanta in the Rashaya District.
In this context, Halabi says: “Arabs owe their integration into Canadian society to the efforts of the Druze individual, Mohammed Saeed Masoud, who, along with a number of immigrants, contributed to the establishment of the Arab-Canadian Friendship Association, and later presided over it.”
During his tenure as president of the association, he was able to address the Canadian Committee on Foreign Affairs and establish the Arab-Canadian Friendship magazine, which he distributed for free to tens of thousands of people in Canada and the United States, reaching as far as the League of Nations and various parliaments around the world.
