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Every so often a gem comes our way. The book
is divided into seven chapters: The Old World; Settlement;
Work and Enterprise; Entrepreneurs and the Ethnic
Economy; Church, Clergy, and Religious Life; The
Way of the Notables; The Fascist Period.
The sending towns from Italy included: Laurenzana
and Pisticci (Basilicata); Chieti, Lanciano, Rocca
San Giovanni, and Fossacia (Abruzzi); Boiano, Casacalenda,
and Montorio nei Frentani (Molise); Vita, Termini
Imerese, and Pachino (Sicily); Monteleone di Puglia
and Modugno di Bari(Puglia); Gravere and Meana di
Susa (Piedmont); Terracina and Sora (Lazio). In
addition, two clusters of towns prominent in Toronto
were studied: one from Zompichia (southern Friuli)
and the other from San Sisto, Cerisano, San Vincenzo
la Costa, San Fili, Montaila Uffugo (Cosenza).
Here are some of the surnames picked at random from
the index. Background on the names generally tend
to state their involvement in the Italian community.
For example, in 1931, Massimo Jacopo Magi, a wealthy
proprietor of a statutory firm, the Florentine Company
on King Street was appointed political secretary
of the Fasci all'Estero. Other background gives
when the person came to Toronto, the places the
person had worked prior to coming to Canada etc.
- ARRIGO, Giuseppe
- BACCI, Ruggero
- CACCIAPUOTI, Rev. Nestor
- DE REVEL, Count Ignazio
- ELISEO, Orlando
- FARANO, James
- GASPARINI, John
- IANNUZZIELLO, Antonio
- JANNETTE, Antonio and Luigi
- LAMANTIA, Agata and Pietro
- MAGI, Massimo Jacopo
- NAPOLITANO, Francesco
- ONGARO, Augusto
- PALANGE, Pasquale
- RACIOPPA, Angelo
- SACCO, Edward Joseph
- TAGLIALATELA, Rev. Alfred
- UNGARO, Francesco
- VIGLIANTI, Rev. Dominic
- ZAMBRI, Joseph
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