Historical stats on religion and ethnicity

Question

A religion grad student at Concordia is looking for the following: population of Jews and Arabs in Canada as a whole and in the Montreal CMA (or, if not available, for the province of Quebec) for the 1901-2001 period. She would also like to have the number of Muslims for the same geographic areas (Canada and Montreal CMA or province of Quebec) and the same period.

I suppose it would be possible to gather data from the individual census but the student does not have much time to do that and would much prefer ready-made historical statistic. Unfortunately, I suspect those do not exist for the categories mentioned above. The only historical data I have been able to find so far is the Jewish population (CANSIM Table 075-0016).

Answer

For some of the years there was no data for certain categories and there was no data for Montreal. StatsCan does not have any publication for prior to 1971. I will be contacting subject-matter for any additional information, but I know from past experience they also do not have historical data at their fingertips unless they have done an historical study.