Italians in Manitoba
Italians have been helping shape and build Manitoba since the 1870s.
…the reader is invited to partake in this human journey and share in the agonizing choice to leave the familiarity of one’s home town and family for an unknown destination, the emotionally debilitating aspects of solitude in a new land, amazement at the vast expanse of the country, facing hostile climate and worse yet a hostile population, straining to make sense of the incoherent sounds of a strange language, coming to grips with the idiosyncrasies of new cultural habits, the experience of working under the most difficult conditions, and the strength and determination to carve out a new life.
- Italian-Canadian Historian Stanislao Carbone from his book Italians in Winnipeg (University of Manitoba Press, 1998)
