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Righting Canada's Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War

Author : Pamela Hickman
Publisher : Lorimer
ISBN 13 : 145940095X
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs: Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War written by Pamela Hickman and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italians 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. 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 were imprisoned in internment camps, mainly in Ontario and New Brunswick. The impact of this internment was felt immediately by families who lost husbands and fathers, but the effects would live on for decades. Eventually, pressure from the Italian Canadian community led Prime Minister Brian Mulroney to issue an apology for the internment and to admit that it was wrong. Using historical photographs, paintings, documents, and first-person narratives, this book offers a full account of this little-known episode in Canadian history.

Righting Canada's Wrongs 6 Book Set + Resource Guide

Author :
Publisher : Lorimer
ISBN 13 : 9781459416024
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs 6 Book Set + Resource Guide written by and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africville Residential Schools The Chinese Head Tax The Komagatu Maru Italian Canadian Internment in the Second World War Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War Righting Canada's Wrongs Resource Guide

Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War

Author : Pamela Hickman
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1552778533
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs: Japanese Canadian Internment in the Second World War written by Pamela Hickman and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War, over 20,000 Japanese Canadians had their civil rights, homes, possessions, and freedom taken away. This visual-packed book tells the story.

Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations

Author : Frank James Tester
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459416678
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Inuit Relocations written by Frank James Tester and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking account of multiple forced relocations by the Canadian government of Inuit communities and individuals. All have been the subject of apologies, but are little known beyond the Arctic. The Inuit community has proven resilient to many attempts at assimilation, relocation and evacuation to the south. In a highly visual and appealing format for young readers, this book explores the many forced relocation of Inuit families and communities in the Canadian Arctic from the 1950s to the 1990s. Governments promoted and forced relocation based on misinformation and racist attitudes. These actions changed Inuit lives forever. This book documents the Inuit experience and the resilience and strength they displayed in the face of these measures. Years afterwards, there have been multiple apologies by the Canadian government for its actions, and some measure of restitution for the harms caused. Included in the book are accounts of a community forced to move to the High Arctic where they found themselves with little food and almost no shelter, of children suddenly taken away from their families and communities to be transported to hospitals for treatment for tuberculosis, and of the notorious slaughter by RCMP officers of hundreds of sled dogs in Arctic settlements. Though apologies have been made, Inuit in northern Canada still face conditions of inadequate housing, schools that fail to teach their language, and epidemics of infectious diseases like TB. Yet still, the Inuit have achieved a measure of self-government, control over resource development, while they enrich cultural life through music, film, art and literature. This book enables readers to understand the colonialism and racism that remain embedded in Canadian society today, and the successful resistance of Inuit to assimilation and loss of cultural identity. Like other volumes in the Righting Canada’s Wrongs series, this book uses a variety of visuals, first-person accounts, short texts and extracts from documents to appeal to a wide range of young readers.

Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools

Author : Melanie Florence
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459408667
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs: Residential Schools written by Melanie Florence and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young people is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in a format that will give all young people access to this painful part of Canadian history. In 1857, the Gradual Civilization Act was passed by the Legislature of the Province of Canada with the aim of assimilating First Nations people. In 1879, Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald commissioned the "Report on Industrial Schools for Indians and Half-Breeds." This report led to native residential schools across Canada. First Nations and Inuit children aged seven to fifteen years old were taken from their families, sometimes by force, and sent to residential schools where they were made to abandon their culture. They were dressed in uniforms, their hair was cut, they were forbidden to speak their native language, and they were often subjected to physical and psychological abuse. The schools were run by the churches and funded by the federal government. About 150,000 aboriginal children went to 130 residential schools across Canada. The last federally funded residential school closed in 1996 in Saskatchewan. The horrors that many children endured at residential schools did not go away. It took decades for people to speak out, but with the support of the Assembly of First Nations and Inuit organizations, former residential school students took the federal government and the churches to court. Their cases led to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history. In 2008, Prime Minister Harper formally apologized to former native residential school students for the atrocities they suffered and the role the government played in setting up the school system. The agreement included the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has since worked to document this experience and toward reconciliation. Through historical photographs, documents, and first-person narratives from First Nations, Inuit, and Metis people who survived residential schools, this book offers an account of the injustice of this period in Canadian history. It documents how this official racism was confronted and finally acknowledged.

The City Without Women

Author : Mario Duliani
Publisher : Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City Without Women written by Mario Duliani and published by Oakville, Ont. : Mosaic Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville

Author : Gloria Ann Wesley
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459416511
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)

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Book Synopsis Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville by : Gloria Ann Wesley

Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs: Africville written by Gloria Ann Wesley and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in the 18th century, Black men and women arrived from the U.S. and settled in various parts of Nova Scotia. In the 1800s, a small Black community had developed just north of Halifax on the shores of the Bedford Basin. The community became known as Africville and grew to about 400 people. Its residents fished, farmed, operated small retail stores and found work in the city. Jobs for Black people were hard to find, with many occupations blocked by racist practices. Women often worked as domestics and many men were train porters. A school and a church were the community’s key institutions. The City of Halifax located a number of undesirable industries in Africville but refused residents’ demands for basic services such as running water, sewage disposal, paved roads, street lights, a cemetery, public transit, garbage collection and adequate police protection. City planners developed urban renewal plans and city politicians agreed to demolish the community. Residents strongly opposed relocation, but city officials ignored their protests and began to seize and bulldoze the homes. In 1967, the church was demolished — in the middle of the night. This was a blow that signaled the end of Africville. In the 1970s, some community members organized and began working for an apology and compensation. In 2010, Halifax’s mayor made a public apology for the community’s suffering and mistreatment. Some former residents accepted this; others continued to campaign for restitution. This new edition documents the continued fight for compensation by community members and their descendants. The spirit and resilience of Africville lives on in new generations of African Nova Scotians.

"Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers"

Author : Andrew Theobald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773101248
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book "Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers" written by Andrew Theobald and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the Second World War internment camp at Ripples (35 km East of Fredericton), New Brunswick. The camp had two distinct phases. In the first (1940-41), the camp housed German and Austrian Jewish refugees who had come to Britain but had then been imprisoned by the British government because they were enemy citizens. In the second phase (1941-45), the camp housed German and Italian PoWs as well as individuals (especially Italian-Canadians) who spoke out against the war effort and were thought to be supporting Germany and Italy."--

Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis

Author : Rona Arato
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 1459415663
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Anti-Semitism and the MS St. Louis written by Rona Arato and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the Second World War, Canada's Jewish community was well established in many cities, including Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg. As war grew closer, anti-Semitism across Europe was increasing. Hitler's Nazis were spreading hatred and violence towards Jews across Germany. At first, Jews were allowed to leave Germany and thousands escaped to save themselves and their families. Then countries around the world closed their doors to Jewish refugees. In 1939, the MS St. Louis sailed for Cuba with nearly a thousand Jewish men, women, and children looking for safety. They were turned away by Cuba, then the US. The ship sailed on to Canada. Despite pleas from the Canadian Jewish community, the government refused to allow the passengers to land in Canada. After war broke out, Canada continued to refuse Jewish refugees entry. When Britain forced Canada to take some refugees in, Canada imprisoned them in internment camps — alongside Nazis. Some of these Jewish refugees were only teenagers. Three years after the war ended and after the horrors of the Holocaust were universally known, Canada finally changed immigration policies and begin to accept Jews equally with other immigrants. Canada's long history of anti-Semitic immigration policies was deemed shameful. In November 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made an official apology to the Jewish community for Canada's refusal to accept the passengers of the MS St. Louis, as well as for its historical anti-Semitic policies.

Righting Canada's Wrongs: The LGBT Purge and the fight for equal rights in Canada

Author : Ken Setterington
Publisher : Lorimer
ISBN 13 : 9781459416192
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Righting Canada's Wrongs: The LGBT Purge and the fight for equal rights in Canada written by Ken Setterington and published by Lorimer. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1950s to 1980s, the Canadian government persecuted LGBTQ+ employees and tried to erase them from the military, the RCMP and the civil service under the guise that they were a “security risk,” an event that became known as the LGBT Purge. Those who were suspected of being homosexual were put under government surveillance, interrogated and intimidated. They were fired from their jobs. Many quit to avoid being exposed. Some committed suicide as a result. In the 1980s, victims of the Purge fought back with a class-action suit against the government that helped shed light on the systemic discrimination that members of the LGBTQ+ community faced from the government and the rest of society. In 2017, the federal government issued a formal apology on behalf of the government and Canadian society for the treatment of members of the LGBTQ+ community. In this highly visual book, author Ken Setterington presents the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights using photographs, first-person accounts and excerpts from archival documents. Significant events in the struggle include the establishment of Pride parades, the Bathhouse Raids, the decriminalization of homosexuality, the passing of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the LGBT Purge and the legalization of same-sex marriage. While the government’s formal acknowledgement of past injustices started Canada on a better path toward equality, there is still work to be done. This book would be a welcome addition to any classroom or library’s social justice collection and will appeal to adults interested in LGBTQ+ rights in Canada.

The Unknown Internment

Author : Stephen R. Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unknown Internment written by Stephen R. Fox and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Fox unveils a forgotten chapter of the American experience in the first book to reveal the federal government's policy of internment of Italian and German nationals during World War II. From February to December 1942, approximately 10,000 California residents were relocated from their homes, and several hundred were interned. Fox presents their oral testimony as a powerful reminder of the often precarious state of civil liberties. Testimony from government officials together with a chronological historical narrative explain the decision-making, implementation and retraction of the relocation order. Government documents, newspapers and 45 interviews with relocated aliens or their surviving family members are the books' principle sources. Fox also explains why the government decided to end its round-up policy nine months after it began, and compares the experiences of Italians and Germans with the internment of Japanese Americans.

Enemies Within

Author : Franca Iacovetta
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802082350
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Enemies Within written by Franca Iacovetta and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enemies Within is the first study of its kind to examine not only the formulation and uneven implementation of internment policy, but the social and gender history of internment. It brings together national and international perspectives.

Sicilian Visitors: Volume 1 - History

Author : Francesco Rocco Ruggeri
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387780077
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Book Synopsis Sicilian Visitors: Volume 1 - History by : Francesco Rocco Ruggeri

Download or read book Sicilian Visitors: Volume 1 - History written by Francesco Rocco Ruggeri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers Sicilian history in terms of Sicilians and Sicilian immigrants as well as visitors to the island. It considers the Napoleonic Wars, World War II, immigration, slavery and piracy and epidemics and disasters, religious history as well as regular history.

Searching for Subversives

Author : Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 146963435X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Subversives written by Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States entered World War II, Italian nationals living in this country were declared enemy aliens and faced with legal restrictions. Several thousand aliens and a few U.S. citizens were arrested and underwent flawed hearings, and hundreds were interned. Shedding new light on an injustice often overshadowed by the mass confinement of Japanese Americans, Mary Elizabeth Basile Chopas traces how government and military leaders constructed wartime policies affecting Italian residents. Based on new archival research into the alien enemy hearings, this in-depth legal analysis illuminates a process not widely understood. From presumptive guilt in the arrest and internment based on membership in social and political organizations, to hurdles in attaining American citizenship, Chopas uncovers many layers of repression not heretofore revealed in scholarship about the World War II home front. In telling the stories of former internees and persons excluded from military zones as they attempted to resume their lives after the war, Chopas demonstrates the lasting social and cultural effects of government policies on the Italian American community, and addresses the modern problem of identifying threats in a largely loyal and peaceful population.

Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories

Author : Swen Steinberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004399534
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories written by Swen Steinberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue focusses on refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British colonies, dominions and overseas territories. It deals with aspects like internment, identity and cultural representation in not well-known destinations of forced migration like India, New Zealand, Canada or Kenya.

The City Without Women

Author : Mario Duliani
Publisher : Millefleurs
ISBN 13 : 9780809548217
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The City Without Women written by Mario Duliani and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fight for History

Author : Tim Cook
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735238340
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Fight for History written by Tim Cook and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST for the 2021 Ottawa Book Awards A masterful telling of the way World War Two has been remembered, forgotten, and remade by Canada over seventy-five years. The Second World War shaped modern Canada. It led to the country's emergence as a middle power on the world stage; the rise of the welfare state; industrialization, urbanization, and population growth. After the war, Canada increasingly turned toward the United States in matters of trade, security, and popular culture, which then sparked a desire to strengthen Canadian nationalism from the threat of American hegemony. The Fight for History examines how Canadians framed and reframed the war experience over time. Just as the importance of the battle of Vimy Ridge to Canadians rose, fell, and rose again over a 100-year period, the meaning of Canada's Second World War followed a similar pattern. But the Second World War's relevance to Canada led to conflict between veterans and others in society--more so than in the previous war--as well as a more rapid diminishment of its significance. By the end of the 20th century, Canada's experiences in the war were largely framed as a series of disasters. Canadians seemed to want to talk only of the defeats at Hong Kong and Dieppe or the racially driven policy of the forced relocation of Japanese-Canadians. In the history books and media, there was little discussion of Canada's crucial role in the Battle of the Atlantic, the success of its armies in Italy and other parts of Europe, or the massive contribution of war materials made on the home front. No other victorious nation underwent this bizarre reframing of the war, remaking victories into defeats. The Fight for History is about the efforts to restore a more balanced portrait of Canada's contribution in the global conflict. This is the story of how Canada has talked about the war in the past, how we tried to bury it, and how it was restored. This is the history of a constellation of changing ideas, with many historical twists and turns, and a series of fascinating actors and events.