Book
Italians in Toronto: development of a national identity, 1875-1935
McGill-Queen's University Press • Kingston • Published In 1990 • Pages: xiv, 255
By: Zucchi, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book, which falls into the realm of migration history, is a study of the Italian immigrant community in Toronto from the 1870s to the 1930s. The author examines the Old World '…background to the emigration of Italians to Toronto, their settlement and occupational patterns, ethnic enterprises, religious and institutional history in order to understand how their sense of identilty changes with their immigration to Canada and more specifically to Toronto' (p. 5). Zucchi notes that although those immigrants who came from Italy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries still retained a strong identification with their hometowns and home districts, yet once they were settled in Toronto they also came to identify strongly with an 'Italian' community in that city.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Insurance
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Individual enterprise
- Status, role, and prestige
- Social relationships and groups
- Sodalities
- Political movements
- Priesthood
- Religious denominations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Italian Canadians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1875-1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- John E. Zucchi
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 199-245) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89170439
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italians--Canada