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Author : Bruno Ramirez
Release : 1989
Genre : Canada
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Book Synopsis The Italians in Canada by : Bruno Ramirez
Download or read book The Italians in Canada written by Bruno Ramirez. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stefano Agnoletto
Release : 2014
Genre : Construction industry
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Book Synopsis The Italians who Built Toronto by : Stefano Agnoletto
Download or read book The Italians who Built Toronto written by Stefano Agnoletto. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pamela Hickman
Release : 2012-10-10
Genre : Young Adult Nonfiction
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Book Synopsis Righting Canada's Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War by : Pamela Hickman
Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War written by Pamela Hickman. This book was released on 2012-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : A. V. Spada
Release : 1969
Genre : Italians
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Book Synopsis The Italians in Canada by : A. V. Spada
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Author : Nicholas De Maria Harney
Release : 1998-01-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Eh, Paesan! by : Nicholas De Maria Harney
Download or read book Eh, Paesan! written by Nicholas De Maria Harney. This book was released on 1998-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's Italian-Canadians face different images than previous generations. An exploration of the reproduction of cultural heritage in a global economy of rapid international communication.
