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The Italian community has been a part of Vancouver since before the city was incorporated in 1886. Some of the first Italians in the area worked building the Canadian Pacific Railway’s extension from Port Moody to Coal Harbour. The first substantial wave of Italian immigration took place between 1896 and 1914.
May 23, 2019 · En route to Ontario in the early 20th century. Many Italian men came to Canada through American ports and looked for jobs in railway construction (courtesy United Church Archives). Italian Canadians are amongst the earliest Europeans to have visited and settled the country.
May 5, 2009 · Back then, the hall was called the Italian Mutual Aid Society, and helped to settle new immigrant Italian families in Vancouver. Its purpose was similar to other important support organizations across the country that helped Italians settle into Canada largely in the early 1950’s.
Feb 1, 2018 · During the 1950s, Vancouver experienced an economic boom, rapid growth, a dramatic rise in the school population, an increase in ethnic and cultural diversity, and the threat of annihilation in a global nuclear war.
Jun 20, 2024 · The train, which left Vancouver on June 10, stopped in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto and Montreal before ending at Halifax’s Pier 21 – where so many Italians arrived in the 1950s. “I’m proud to...
In the late 1940s, Italians were removed from the enemy alien list, prompting the largest wave of Italian immigration to Canada. Between the early 1950s and the mid-1960s, approximately 20,000-30,000 Italians immigrated to Canada each year.
May 4, 2012 · St. Clare’s Convent on Napier Street, across Semlin from the monastery, in the 1950s . St. Francis was in the news once, in 1963, for a bizarre murder that seems more in character with contemporary Vancouver than the quiet town of the early 1960s. As Sun reporter Moira Farrow wrote:
