Canada's Religion History Today, Canada is a country known for its mosaic of cultures, as well as its promise to provide protection to all cultural groups regardless of origin and equal opportunity for all. Unfortunately, these multicultural ideals did not always exist within Canadian society. As Canada grew as an independent nation the roots of anti-Semitism began to grow with it. Although Jewish settlement in Canada had once been respected and praised, the changing atmosphere of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century brought forth an era of anti-Semitism and turbulence for Canadian Jewry. In this perio