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About Italian Canadians
An Italian Canadian Bibliography
While this bibliography---with some one hundred entries---cannot be described as complete, it is wide-ranging, including published fiction and non-fiction materials relating to Italian Canadian life from coast to coast to coast.  Such scope is intended to stimulate future study of those issues which are of importance to Italian Canadians.

If you would like to add the title of a book, thesis, or article to this list, contact us at info@canadese.org  with your suggestion. Make sure to include the full name of the author and publisher, and the place and date of publication. In the case of articles, include the name of the journal or magazine in which the article first appeared, and the date, volume and/or number of the issue in which it appeared. 

Books

A Bench on Which to Rest: The Diary of an Immigrant: A Novel, by Elena Maccaferri (translated by Maria Colfer Phillips), Herodias (New York:1999)

 A Monument for Italian Canadian Immigrants: Regional Migration from Italy to Canada, G. Scardellato and Manuela Scarci, eds., Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto (Toronto:1999)

 All Our Fathers: the North Italian Colony in Cape Breton, by E.M. Razzolinni, International Education Centre (Halifax:n.d.)

 Angelo Branca: Gladiator of the Courts, by Vincent Moore, Douglas & McIntyre (Vancouver:1981)

 Arranggiarsi: The Italian Immigration Experience in Canada, edited by Roberto Perin and Franc Sturino, Guernica Editions (Montreal:1989)

 Canadese: A Portrait of the Italian Canadians, by Kenneth Bagnell, Macmillan (Toronto:1989)

 Black Madonna, by Frank Paci (Ottawa:1982)

 Canadiana: Storia e Storiografia Canadese, edited by Luca Codignola (Venice:1979)

 Canadiana: Problemi di Storia Canadese, edited by Luca Codignola (Venice:1983)

 Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing, edited by Joseph Pivato, Guernica Editions (1985)

 Coro Santa Cecilia, Toronto, Canada, 1961-1986: Twenty-Five Years of Italian Voices in Canada, Gianni Angelo Grohovaz (Toronto:1986)

 Curaggia: Writing by Women of Italian Descent,  N. A. Ciatu, et al., eds., Women’s Press, (Toronto:1998)

 Dalla Frontiera alle little Italies: gli italiani in Canada, 1800-1945, by Robert Harney, Bonacci Editore (Rome:1984)

 “Dangerous Foreigner”: European Immigrant Workers and Labour Radicalism in Canada, 1896-1932, by Donald Avery (Toronto:1979)

 “…E con rispetto parlando al microfono Gianni Grohovaz”, by Gianni Grohovaz, La Casa Editrice Sono Me (Toronto:1983)

 Eh, Paesan: Being Italian in Toronto, by Nicholas D. Harney, University of Toronto Press (Toronto:1998)

 Enemies Within: Italians and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad, Franca Iacovetta et al., eds.,  University of Toronto Press (Toronto:2000).

 Ethnicity and Housing Adaptation of the Italians in Montreal, by John Fainella, National Library of Canada (Ottawa:1987)

 Ethnicity, the State and War: Canada and Its Ethnic Minorities, 1939-1945, by Norman Hillmer (Ottawa:1989)

 Fogolars 1979, by T. Baldassi et al., Azzi Publishing Company (Vancouver:1979)

 From an Antique Land: Italians in Canada, edited by F.C.Hardwick (Vancouver:1976)

 Gathering Places: Peoples and Neighbourhoods of Toronto, 1875-1935, (Toronto:1985)

 Gli Italiani in Canada, by Guglielmo Vangelisti, 2nd edition (Montreal:1958)

 I Cattivi Pensieri di Don Smarto: Un Prete Italiano in Canada, by Benito Framarin, Edizioni Messaggero Padova (Padua:1986)

 I Lucani a Toronto, by Franco Conte (Toronto:1984)

 Immigrants, A Portrait of the Urban Experience:1890-1930, by R. Harney and H. Troper, Van Norstrand Reinhold (Toronto:1975)

 In Giro Per Il Mondo: Osservazioni e appunti, by Enea Cavalieri (Bologna:1880)

 Il Canada e L’emigrazione Italiana, by Carlo De Stefani (Firenze:1914)

 Issues in Cultural Diversity, by H. Troper and L. Palmer, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (Toronto:1976)

 Italian Canadian Voices, edited by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni, Mosaic Press (Oakville,Ontario:1984)

 Italians in a Multicultural Canada, by Clifford Jansen, E. Mellen Press (Queenston, Ontario:1988)

 Italians in Canada, by A.V. Spada, Riviera Press (Montreal:1969)

 Italians in Ontario, edited by F. Sturino and J. Zucchi, Special Issue of Polyphony, the Bulletin of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario (Fall-Winter 1985)

 Italians in Toronto: Development of a National Identity, 1875-1935, by John Zucchi, McGill-Queen’s University Press (1989)

 La Ville Sans Femme, by Mario Duliani, Societé des Editions Pascal (Montreal:1969)

 Little Italies in North America, edited by Robert Harney and J. Vincenza Scarpaci, Multicultural History Society of Ontario (Toronto:1981)

 Lives of the Saints, by Nino Ricci (Toronto:1991)

 Looking Into My Sister’s Eyes: An Exploration in Women’s History, edited by J. Burnet (Toronto:1982)

 Newcomers in Transition: An Experimental Study Project, by E. Ferguson, International Institute of Metropolitan Toronto (Toronto:1964)

 Of Toronto the Good: A Social Study, by C.S. Clark, Toronto Publishing Company (Montreal:1889) Reprinted 1970

 On the Move: French Canadian and Italian Immigrants in the North Atlantic Economy, 1860-1914, by Bruno Ramirez, McClelland and Stewart (Toronto:1991)

 Recreation in a predominantly Italian-speaking neighbourhood in Toronto, by Angelo Albergo, (Toronto:1973)

 Rime Gentile e Barbare, by Nicola Morfea, Editrice Nuovi Autori (Milano:1990)

 Roman Candles, edited by Pier Georgio Di Cicco (Toronto:1978)

 Royal Commission appointed to Inquire into the Immigration of Italian Labourers to Montreal and alleged Fraudulent Practices of Employment Agencies (Ottawa:1905)

 Strangers Within Our Gates, or Coming Canadians, by James S. Woodsworth (University of Toronto Press:1972)

 Studi Emigrazione/Études Migrations, Centro Studi Emigrazione (Rome:1985)

 The Closer We Are to Dying, by Joe Fiorito, Picador

 The Congregation of Italians in Vancouver, by Christopher William Collett, National Library of Canada (Ottawa:1985)

 The Culture of Italy Mediaeval to Modern, edited by S. Bernard Chandler & Julius Molinaro, Griffin House (Toronto:1979)

 The Father, by Frank Paci (Ottawa:1984)

 The Italian Immigrant Woman in North America, edited by Betty Boyd Caroli et al., Multicultural History Society of Ontario (Toronto:1978)

 The Italians, by Frank Paci (Scarborough, Ontario:1978)

 The Italians in America Before the Civil War, by G. Schiavo (New York:1934)

 The Italians in Canada, by Bruno Ramirez, Canadian Historical Association (Ottawa:1989)

 The Italians of Montreal: Social Adjustment in a Plural Society, by Jeremy Boissevain, Queen’s Printer (Ottawa:1970)

 The Italians of Montreal: From Sojourning to Settlement 1900-1921, by Bruno Ramirez, Associazione Cultura Popolare Italo-Quebecois (Montreal)

 The Italians of Western Canada: How a Community Centre is Born, by Giovanni Germano, Giunti (Florence:1975)

 The Italians, by Luigi Barzini, Atheneum (New York:1964)

 The New City: A Prejudiced View of Toronto, by Pierre Berton, Macmillan (Toronto:1961)

The Vertical Mosaic: An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, by John Porter, University of Toronto Press (Toronto:1965)

 They Lived in the Moneta: An Overview of the History  and Changes in Social Organization of Italians in Timmins, Ontario, by J.L. DiGiacomo (Downsview, Ontario:1982)

 They Worked and Prayed Together: Italians in Haliburton County, by Leopold Dobrzensky (1988)

 Toronto Remembered: A Celebration of the City, by William Kilbourn, Stoddart (Toronto:1984)

 Toronto’s People, edited by Robert Harney, Multicultural History Society of Ontario (Toronto:1984)

 We Italians: A Study on Italian Immigration in Canada, by Francesco Gualtieri, Italian World War Veterans’ Association (Toronto:1937)


Theses
“Community and Conflict: A Study of the Working Class and Its Relationship at the Canadian Lakehead, 1903-1913”, Master’s thesis of Jean Morrison, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1974

 “Inside the Chain: A Case Study in Southern Italian Migration to North America, 1880-1930”, Ph.D. dissertation of Franc Sturino, University of Toronto, 1981

 “Post-War Immigrants in the Changing Metropolis with Special Reference to Toronto’s Italian Population”, Ph.D. dissertation of Samuel Sidlofsky, University of Toronto, 1969

 “The Innocuous Enemy Alien: Italians in Canada during World War Two”, Master’s thesis of Joseph A. Ciccocelli, University of Western Ontario, 1977

 “The Italian Community in Fort William’s East End in the Early Twentieth Century”, Master’s thesis of Anthony Pucci, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, 1977  


Articles
Allen, Robert Thomas, “Portrait of Little Italy”, Maclean’s, March 21, 1964

 _____”From Italy With Love (Some Lessons in Living)”, The Canadian Magazine, November 8, 1969

 Bell, Margaret, “Toronto’s Melting Pot”, The Canadian Magazine, May-October 1913

 Bridle, Augustus, “The Drama of the Ward”, The Canadian Magazine, November 1919

 Danesi, Marcel, “Ethnic Languages and Acculturation: The Case of Italo-Canadians”, Canadian Ethnic Studies (1985)

 Fortier, A.-M., “The Politics of ‘Italians Abroad’: Nations, Diaspora, and the New Geographies of Identity”, in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Vol. 7, Number 2, Spring 1998

 Gabaccia, D. R., “Creating Italians in Canada”, in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Vol. 7, Number 2, Spring 1998

 Harney, Robert F., “The Padrone and the Immigrant”, Canadian Review of American Studies, 1974

 ___ “Ambiente and Social Class in North American Little Italies”, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, 1976

 ___ “ Italphobia: English Speaking Malady?”, Studi Emigrazione XX11, 1977

 ___ “ The Italian Experience in America: Handbook for Teachers of Italian”,  American Association of Teachers of Italian, 1976

 ___ “ The Commerce of Migration”, Canadian Ethnic Studies (1977)

 ___ “Italians in Canada”, Occasional papers on ethnic and immigration studies, Multicultural History Society of Ontario, Toronto

 ___ “If one were to write a history of Postwar Toronto Italia”, Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1987

 Iacovetta, Franca, “Remaking Their Lives: Women Survivors, Immigrants and Refugees in Early Post-war Toronto”, in Joy Parr, ed., A Diversity of Women: Ontario, 1945-1980, Toronto:1995

 Jansen, Clifford J., “Community Organization of Italians in Toronto”, The Canadian Ethnic Mosaic, McClelland and Stewart, 1978

 ___ “Education and Social Mobility of Immigrants: A Pilot Study Focusing on Italians in Vancouver”, The Institute of Behavioural Research, 1981

 Macdonald, J.S., “Chain Migration Reconsidered”, Bolletino di Demografia Storica, Vol. 16, 1992

 Negri, Cristoforo, “Le Navigazioni alla Nuova-Brunswick”, in La Grandezza Italiana: Studi, Confronti, Desideri (Turin:1864)

 Pagliuso, Saverio, “Private brief on problems and needs within Toronto’s Italian-Canadian community”, Report submitted to the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, 1972

 Pennacchio, Luigi G., “Fascism and the World War: The Impact on Toronto’s Italians”, York University, 1989

 Principe, A., “The Italo-Canadian Press of Toronto, 1922-1940”, Proceedings of the Italian Section/Northeast Modern Languages Association Conference, 1980

 Pucci, Antonio, “At the forefront of militancy: Italians in Canada at the turn of the century”, Studi Emigrazione/Etudes Migrations, Rome, 1985

 ____, “Thunder Bay’s Two Little Italies, 1880s-1940s”, in The Italian Immigrant Experience, J. Potestio and A. Pucci, eds., Canadian Italian Historical Association, Thunder Bay, 1988

 Saccucci, Sandra, “The Italian Canadian Dialectic. The Old and the New: Frank Paci’s Black Madonna and the Father, in Italian Canadiana, VI, 1990

 Sturino, Franc, “Family and Kin Cohesion among the South Italian immigrants in Toronto”, Toronto, 1978

 ___ “Contours of Post War Italian Immigration to Toronto”, Toronto, 1984

Zucchi, John, “The Immigrants of St. John’s Ward: Patterns of Settlement and  Neighbourhood Formation”, Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1978

 _____, “Occupations, Enterprise, and the Migration Chain: The Fruit Vendors from Termini Imerese in Toronto, 1900-1930”, in Studi-Emigrazione/Études-Migrations, Vol. 22, March 1985


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