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Author : Bruno Ramirez,Canadian Historical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015019046203
Author : Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews
Publisher : Dragon Hill Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015076186363
From the moment explorer Giovanni Caboto stepped onto Canadian soil, Italians have left their footprints on Canadian history. In the 1700s, Italians including Alphonse and Henri de Tonti came to New France to trade with the Natives and settle the vast land. In the 1800s, Italian workers built the foundation for railways and highways into Canada's northern forests. Today, Little Italy is a part of every major Canadian city. The Italian-Canadian vote is even credited with helping keep Canada together in Québec's sovereignty referendum.
Author : Bruno Ramirez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1894935926
Author : Pamela Hickman,Jean Smith Cavalluzzo
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459400955
Italians came to Canada to seek a better life. From the 1870s to the 1920s they arrived in large numbers and found work mainly in mining, railway building, forestry, construction, and farming. As time passed, many used their skills to set up successful small businesses, often in Little Italy districts in cities like Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton, and Winnipeg. Many struggled with the language and culture in Canada, but their children became part of the Canadian mix. When Canada declared war on Italy on June 10, 1940, the government used the War Measures Act to label all Italian citizens over the age of eighteen as enemy aliens. Those who had received Canadian citizenship after 1922 were also deemed enemy aliens. Immediately, the RCMP began making arrests. Men, young and old, and a few women were taken from their homes, offices, or social clubs without warning. In all, about 700 were imprisoned in internment camps, mainly in Ontario and New Brunswick. The impact of this internment was felt immediately by families who lost husbands and fathers, but the effects would live on for decades. Eventually, pressure from the Italian Canadian community led Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to issue an apology for the internment and to admit that it was wrong. Using historical photographs, paintings, documents, and first-person narratives, this book offers a full account of this little-known episode in Canadian history.
Author : Kenneth Bagnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89066084005
Author : Robert F. Harney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X000081294
Author : Stefano Agnoletto
Publisher : Trade Unions. Past, Present and Future
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Construction industry
ISBN : 3034317735
After World War II, hundreds of thousands of Italians emigrated to Toronto. This book describes their labour, business, social and cultural history as they settled in their new home. It addresses fundamental issues that impacted both them and the city, including ethnic economic niching, unionization, urban proletarianization and migrants' entrepreneurship. In addressing these issues the book focuses on the role played by a specific economic sector in enabling immigrants to find their place in their new host society. More specifically, this study looks at the residential sector of the construction industry that, between the 1950s and the 1970s, represented a typical economic ethnic niche for newly arrived Italians. In fact, tens of thousands of Italian men found work in this sector as labourers, bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and cement finishers, while hundreds of others became contractors, subcontractors or small employers in the same industry. This book is about these real people. It gives voice to a community formed both by entrepreneurial subcontractors who created companies out of nothing and a large group of exploited workers who fought successfully for their rights. In this book you will find stories of inventiveness and hope as well as of oppression and despair. The purpose is to offer an original approach to issues arising from the economic and social history of twentieth-century mass migrations.
Author : Jeremy Boissevain
Publisher : New York : Arno Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Italians
ISBN : WISC:89003419090
Author : John E. Zucchi
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773561687
Italians began migrating to Toronto in large numbers toward the end of the nineteenth century. Many of these immigrants were peasants who arrived in the new world with only a vague sense of nationality. In Italy, their identity had been primarily connected with the villages that were their homes and only secondarily with regions and country. In Toronto, as in other North American cities, a more emphatic sense of Italian nationalism developed. John Zucchi identifies the distinguishing factors which led to the formation of a strong, nationalistic Italian community in Toronto and to the shift in loyalty from the local level to the national. These two elements of the immigrants' identity are dealt with in each chapter, so that while analysing the internal history of an ethnic group in a Canadian city, Zucchi also details the histories of many Italian village families.
Author : Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0773511458
Such Hardworking People provides a perceptive description of the working-class experiences of immigrants who came to Toronto from southern Italy between 1946 and 1965. Franca Iacovetta focuses on the relations between newly arrived workers and their families, showing that the Italians who came to Toronto during this period were predominantly young, healthy women and men eager to obtain jobs and prepared to make sacrifices in order to secure a more comfortable life for themselves and their children.
Author : Robert F. Harney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017507117
Author : Clifford J. Jansen
Publisher : Lewiston, N.Y. ; Quueenston, Ont. : E. Mellen Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Canada
ISBN : UCAL:B4470354
Evaluates the effect of the official Canadian policy of multiculturalism, in effect since 1971, on Italians in Canada.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 1550713922
Author : A. Manuela (Amalia Manuela) Scarci,Gabriele Pietro Scardellato,University of Toronto. Department of Italian Studies,Italian-Canadian Immigrant Commemorative Association
Publisher : Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0772789541
Author : Patricia K. Wood
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0773523707
In Nationalism from the Margins Patricia Wood offers a fresh approach to the study of immigration adaptation and collective and individual identity formation. In analysing a century of Italian migration to Alberta and British Columbia Wood documents a multicultural experience and vision of Canada that long preceded the official policy of 1971. 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.