Italians In Winnipeg

Author : Stanislao Carbone
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887550546

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Italians in Winnipeg by Stanislao Carbone Pdf

Since the 1870s, Italian Canadians have been an important part of Winnipeg's social, economic and cultural life. From colorful celebrities like Charlie ("Don Carlos") Mazzone to artisans and "ordinary" working people, Italian Canadians have helped to build Winnipeg and its character. Italians in Winnipeg: An Illustrated History uses history, personal recollections and photographs to record over 100 years of the Italian Canadian experience in Winnipeg. Author Stanislao Carbone provides the historical background for the events and forces that shaped Italian immigration to Winnipeg, while excerpts from the personal memories of four generations of Winnipeg Italians tell individual stories of the hardships and triumphs of building a new life in a new country. As well, over one hundred photographs illustrate both the public and private faces of Winnipeg Italians - the exuberance of a family's first Christmas in Canada, the proud faces of prosperous storekeepers, work crews on the railroads, lively community picnics, or the determination of two small children and their mother leaving for the voyage to Canada. Together, these words and images weave together the story of generations of Winnipeg Italians as they struggled with the decision to leave their homeland, endured long separa¬tions from family, found work and set down roots in their new country while retaining ties to the old one.

Author : Manitoba Italian Heritage Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Italian Canadians Manitoba Winnipeg Biography
ISBN : 0969694210

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In Our Own Words by Manitoba Italian Heritage Committee Pdf

Author : Stanislao Carbone,Manitoba Italian Heritage Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Italian Canadians Manitoba Winnipeg History
ISBN : 0969694202

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The Streets Were Not Paved with Gold by Stanislao Carbone,Manitoba Italian Heritage Committee Pdf

Author : Brian Douglas Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:184775894

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In the Company of Other Italians by Brian Douglas Ross Pdf

Author : Travis Tomchuk
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780887554827

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Transnational Radicals by Travis Tomchuk Pdf

Italian anarchism emerged in the latter half of the nineteenth century, during that country’s long and bloody unification. Often facing economic hardship and political persecution, many of Italy’s anarchists migrated to North America. Wherever Italian anarchists settled they published journals, engaged in labour and political activism, and attempted to re-create the radical culture of their homeland. Transnational Radicals examines the transnational anarchist movement that existed in Canada and the United States between 1915 and 1940. Against a backdrop of brutal and open class war—with governments calling upon militias to suppress strikes, radicals thrown in jail for publicly speaking against capitalism and the church, and those of foreign birth being deported and even executed for political activities—Italian anarchism was successfully transplanted. Transnationalism made it more difficult for states to destroy groups spread across wide geographical spaces. In Italy and abroad the strong anarchist identity informed by class, ethnicity, and gender reinforced movement values, promoted movement expansion, and assisted mobilization during times of crisis. In Transnational Radicals, Tomchuk makes use of Italian government security files and Italian-language anarchist newspapers to reconstruct a vibrant and little-studied political movement during a tumultuous period of modern North American history.

Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803247877

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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains by David J. Wishart Pdf

"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have

Author : Kazimierz Patalas
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887553592

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Providence Watching by Kazimierz Patalas Pdf

At the start of the Second World War, Poland was invaded by both the German and the Soviet armies. The country was unable to withstand the assaults and thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians were shipped to labour camps and prisons, where starvation, disease, and mistreatment were their daily expectations. With the signing of an amnesty between the Polish and Soviet governments in 1942, many of these soldiers were engaged in rebuilding the Polish army, and travelled through the Mideast to fight in the Italian campaign.After the war, Canada accepted over 4000 Polish immigrant soldiers and their families who did not want to return to a communist regime in their country. This book is a moving oral history of the experiences of forty-five individuals during that transition period between the outbreak of war and their eventual relocation in Canada. Their memories of those times remain clear, not so remarkably perhaps, as they recount how they struggled in labour and prison camps, refugee camps, and exile in freezing northern climates, often arriving with the clothes they wore and nothing else. There are stories here of families torn apart and reunited, courageous escapes, underground resistance, friendship and emnity, and above all of survival. To read these memoirs is to understand how the inhumanity of war is confronted and defied by the indomitable human spirit.

Author : Marilyn Barber,Murray Watson
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780887554988

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Invisible Immigrants by Marilyn Barber,Murray Watson Pdf

Despite being one of the largest immigrant groups contributing to the development of modern Canada, the story of the English has been all but untold. In Invisible Immigrants, Barber and Watson document the experiences of English-born immigrants who chose to come to Canada during England’s last major wave of emigration between the 1940s and the 1970s. Engaging life story oral histories reveal the aspirations, adventures, occasional naïveté, and challenges of these hidden immigrants. Postwar English immigrants believed they were moving to a familiar British country. Instead, like other immigrants, they found they had to deal with separation from home and family while adapting to a new country, a new landscape, and a new culture. Although English immigrants did not appear visibly different from their new neighbours, as soon as they spoke, they were immediately identified as “foreign.” Barber and Watson reveal the personal nature of the migration experience and how socio-economic structures, gender expectations, and marital status shaped possibilities and responses. In postwar North America dramatic changes in both technology and the formation of national identities influenced their new lives and helped shape their memories. Their stories contribute to our understanding of postwar immigration and fill a significant gap in the history of English migration to Canada.

Author : Ingeborg Boyens
Publisher : Great Plains Press
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000065173398

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The Encyclopedia of Manitoba by Ingeborg Boyens Pdf

An 800-page information source for all aspects of Manitoba's history, arts, politics, nature, geography, business, and sports.

Author : Farley Mowat
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771000307

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And No Birds Sang by Farley Mowat Pdf

Mowat's gripping account of how a young man, excited by the prospect of battle, is transformed into a war-weary veteran.

Author : Alexander Begg,Walter R. Nursey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Industries
ISBN : OXFORD:N10552262

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Ten Years in Winnipeg by Alexander Begg,Walter R. Nursey Pdf

Author : Jann Arden
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780735273931

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Feeding My Mother by Jann Arden Pdf

This edition of the inspirational #1 bestseller draws on a new year of Jann's diaries and her mother's final days. When beloved singer and songwriter Jann Arden's parents built a house just across the way from her, she thought they would be her refuge from the demands of her career. And for a time that was how it worked. But then her dad fell ill and died, and just days after his funeral, her mom was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. In Feeding My Mother, Jann shares what it is like for a daughter to become her mother's caregiver—in her own frank and funny words, and in recipes she invented to tempt her mom. Full of heartbreak, but also full of love and wonder.

Author : Steven Kohm,Sonia Bookman,Pauline Greenhill
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552668641

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Screening Justice by Steven Kohm,Sonia Bookman,Pauline Greenhill Pdf

What do Canadian films say about crime and justice in Canada? What purpose to Canadian crime films serve politically and culturally? Screening Justice is a scholarly exploration of films that focus on crime and justice in Canada. Crime films are pivotal for understanding and shaping Canadian sensibilities by setting out widely available templates for thinking about crime and justice in Canadian society. Spanning disciplines and examining films from across Canada, Screening Justice is the first comprehensive Canadian volume on crime films that takes up cultural criminology’s call for more critical scholarly analyses of the interplay between crime, culture and society.

Author : Patricia K. Wood
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773570238

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Nationalism from the Margins by Patricia K. Wood Pdf

She argues that nationalism is not one idea but a "relationship of voices, speaking from varying levels of political and social power, and to varying audiences." The Italian understanding of what it means to belong to Canada does not require the abandonment of ethnic identity but instead demonstrates the ways in which layers of identity intersect. Wood introduces the more spatial concept of "relocation" and emphasizes the complex and negotiated nature of immigrant identities. She highlights the immigrants' roles as active participants in the creation of their own local, regional, and national spaces, underlining the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to immigrant history. Highlighting the "marginalized" status of these immigrants - as Southern Europeans, Catholics, and residents of western Canada - Wood brings their voice to the centre and shows them to be agents in the production of their identities.

Author : G. Bruce Strang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317164173

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Collision of Empires by G. Bruce Strang Pdf

Italy's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 marked a turning point in interwar Europe. The last great European colonial conquest in Africa, the conflict represented an enormous gamble for the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. He faced a challenge not only from a stout Ethiopian defence, but also from difficult logistics made worse by the League of Nations' half-hearted sanctions. Mussolini faced down this opposition, and Italian troops, aided by air superiority and liberal use of yprite gas, conquered Addis Ababa within eight months, a victory that shocked many military observers of the time with its speed and suddenness. The invasion had enormous repercussions on European international relations. In the midst of a national election campaign, the British National Government had felt constrained to support the League, despite fears that sanctions through the League could lead to war with Italy. The concentration of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean Sea alienated Mussolini and placed the French government on the horns of dilemma; should France support its military partner, Italy, or its more important potential ally, Great Britain? French attempts to mark out a middle ground did little to placate the Duce, and the crisis seemed to develop a deep rift between Fascist Italy and the Anglo-French democracies, while at the same time creating a crisis in Anglo-French relations. Mussolini turned towards Nazi Germany in an attempt to end his diplomatic isolation during the sanctions episode, although Hitler considered the Duce's friendship a mixed blessing. The question of American adherence to sanctions increased ill will between British politicians and the Roosevelt administration in Washington, as each tended to blame the other for the failure of oil sanctions and the collapse of collective security. The international crisis posed similarly thorny problems for the smaller powers of Europe, and for Japan and the Soviet Union. The crisis impeded common defence against Fascist expansionism while giving impetus to claims of the revisionist powers. Despite the tremendous importance of the international crisis, however, little new work on the subject has appeared in recent decades. In this volume, an international cast of contributors take a fresh look at the crisis through the lens of new evidence and new approaches to international relations history to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the crisis currently possible, and their work provides new frames of reference for exploring imperialism, collective security and genocide.