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.
Abstract
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.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle; 2000
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1875-1935
- Coverage Place
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Notes
- John E. Zucchi
- Includes bibliographic references (p. 199-245) and index
- LCCN
- 89170439
- LCSH
- Italians--Canada