Join us for the 4th Annual Conference on Italian Heritage
The School of Languages and Literatures at the University of Guelph presents the Fourth Annual Conference on Italian Heritage: JOURNEYS TO CANADA FROM ITALY.
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Agostino Crescenzi, The Skates Sharperner
By Hoodo Kayd Abdillahi
An Italian Heart, a Canadian Home
By Constantino Apostolou
The Quiet Immigrant Project
The Quiet Immigrant Project is beginning a new rotating installation exhibit which celebrates and tells the stories of Italian women immigrating to Canada. The exhibit presents an opportunity to hold a dialogue about identity, community, education, legacy, and culture. The physical exhibit will be in place from February 1-April 11, 2024 at the Vaughan Civic Centre Resource Library. There will also be a digital social media campaign set for 2024, which celebrates 52 women over 52 weeks. Links to the Quiet Immigrant Project’s website and social media can be found below.
Industry, Culture, and Immigration: The Story of John Ostetto
Written by Alli Arcuri
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A Casa Di Maria: Identifying with Home in Canada and Italy
written by Kelly Hughes
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Lino Magagna: The Canadian Dream, and his Dedication to a Better World
My grandfather, Lino Magagna (C.M., E.MBA, Ph.D., P.Eng.), emigrated from Italy in 1952. Despite knowing no English upon his arrival, he went on to be not only an esteemed Academic and Businessman, but also the President of COSTI, a highly influential Italian-Canadian nonprofit, from 1971-1979, after serving on the Board of Directors since 1968. This is his journey from Italian farmhand to Member of the Order of Canada. Because he is no longer with us, I have to interviewed three people who have some of the best insight into his life: his brother, Sandro Magagna, his ex-wife, Rosemary MacLean, and his close friend, Robbie Shaw.
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Join us for the 3rd Annual Conference on Italian Heritage
You are cordially invited to the 3rd Annual Conference on Italian Heritage on December 4, 2023. This year it is entitled "Echoes of Italia: Unveiling Heritage through Oral Histories, Legends, and Community Archives in Italian-Canadian Ethnographic Studies".
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Frank Iacobucci: Canada’s Cultural Champion
The Honourable Frank Iacobucci, a former Italian-Canadian Supreme Court Judge, continues to mark his career with passion for equity and mutual cultural understanding. Emerging as the son of an Italian immigrant family in Vancouver's East End, Iacobucci's family endured the experience of internment during the Second World War. Iacobucci mediated various cultural issues within Canada's socio-political environment early in his Supreme Court appointment, namely the Meech Lake Accord and certain Indigenous rights events. In recent times, Iacobucci has continued to stand for Indigenous people in what is now Canada in civic, environmental, and social capacities. Frank Iacobucci's recent work represents a refinement of principles best understood by looking over his career from appointment to the present--contextualized further with his background--and examining his commitment to marginalized cultural identities in what is now Canada.
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