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

Adriana A. Davies

People September 6, 2016

“Enemy alien designation impacted the entire community. For many, all aspects of their ‘Italianness’ – language, names and associations – were suppressed. When the post-war generation of immigrants arrived in Alberta, they found no Italian societies to ease their way.”

Tags Benito Mussolini, fascism, Felice de Angelis, Italian internment, language suppression, nationalism, War Measures Act, WWII

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