essay
The Italians of Montreal: from sojourning to settlement, 1900-1921
Little Italies in North America • Toronto • Published In 1981 • Pages: 63-84
By: Ramirez, Bruno, Del Balzo, Michele.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Ramirez and Del Balzo focus in this study on what they call the 'formative period' (ca. 1900-1921) of Italian immigration to Montreal during which the community was transformed from the status of a 'colony' to a full-blown Little Italy. In this document this transition from sojourning to final settlement is examined in detail. Other major topics discussed in this work are: housing of immigrants (with particular reference to the boarding house), job opportunities in Canada, labor agents, the Italian PROMINENTI or elite, the role of the Immigration Aid Society, internal conflicts, population trends, the Church and its function in social control, and the significance of Italian groceries in the social life of Italian Canadians.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Composition of population
- External migration
- Settlement patterns
- Housing
- Labor supply and employment
- Labor relations
- Status, role, and prestige
- Social relationships and groups
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Social control
- Crime
- Congregations
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Sociologist
- 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
- 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
- 1900-1921
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Bruno Ramirez and Michele Del Balzo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 84)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82175514
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Italians--Canada