<p><strong>The award-winning Righting Canada’s Wrongs series is now available in French for Immersion classrooms.<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n
<p><strong><em>\u00a0\u00bbThis book is very well-done… The visuals are spectacular and will surely be a drawing card for students at the upper elementary and junior high levels\u00a0\u00bb Rated E, excellent, enduring, everyone should see it!<\/em> \u2014 Resource Links<\/strong><br \/>
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\nItalians came to Canada to seek a better life. From the 1870s to the 1920s they arrived in large numbers and found work mainly in mining, railway building, forestry, construction and farming. As time passed, many used their skills to set up successful small businesses, often in Little Italy districts in cities like Montreal, Toronto, Hamilton and Winnipeg. Many struggled with the language and culture in Canada, but their children became part of the Canadian mix.<\/p><\/p>\n
<p>When Canada declared war on Italy on June 10, 1940, the government used the War Measures Act to label all Italian citizens over the age of eighteen as enemy aliens. Those who had received Canadian citizenship after 1922 were also deemed enemy aliens. Immediately, the RCMP began making arrests. Men, young and old, and a few women were taken from their homes, offices, or social clubs without warning. In all, about 700 Italians and Italian-Canadians were imprisoned in internment camps, mainly in Ontario and New Brunswick.<\/p><\/p>\n
<p>The impact of this internment was felt immediately by families who lost husbands and fathers, but the effects would live on for decades. In 1990, pressure from the Italian Canadian community led then Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to issue an apology for the internment, but he did not do it in parliament. Many survivors and their families felt that it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p><\/p>\n
<p>This newly updated edition includes the 2018 \u201cexpression of regret\u201d from the RCMP, as well as the 2021 official government apology given by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Parliament to internment survivors, their descendants and to the Italian Canadian community.<\/p><\/p>\n
<p>Using historical photographs, paintings, documents and first-person narratives, this book offers a full account of this little-known episode in Canadian history.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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