There Were No Safety Nets: Edmonton’s Italian Community

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There Were No Safety Nets: Edmonton’s Italian Community

“When immigrants arrived in Alberta, they found no Italian societies to ease their way.” Explore the people, places, and motions that were at the heart of Italian immigrants finding a foothold in Alberta and Edmonton.

There Were No Safety Nets, Part 3: Edmonton’s Italian Community, 1949 to the Present

Adriana A. Davies

The end of the Second World War in 1945 signalled an economic boom for Canada with primary and secondary industries…

There Were No Safety Nets, Part 2: Edmonton’s Italian Community, 1921 to 1945

Adriana A. Davies

With the ending of the First World War, the Government of Canada amended the 1910 Immigration Act.[1] The 1919 amendment…

There Were No Safety Nets, Part 1: Edmonton’s Italian Community, 1900 to 1920

Adriana A. Davies

In an age in which Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees fundamental rights and immigrants, whether economic migrants or…