Kensington
- Publisher
- Boston Mills Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2000
- Category
- General, Emigration & Immigration, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781550463385
- Publish Date
- Sep 2000
- List Price
- $39.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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Description
Since the late 1800s, the Kensington area of Toronto has witnessed the dreams and struggles of successive waves of immigrants. This remarkable book examines the lives of the European Jews, Italians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Portuguese, Asians, Blacks and other groups who came to Kensington and made it their home, their workplace, their village.
About the authors
by Jean Cochrane with photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo
Vincenzo Pietropaolo is an award-winning photographer whose work has been widely published in Canada and abroad. An Italian-Canadian, he and his family immigrated to Canada in 1959. He is the author of Celebration of Resistance: Ontario's Days of Action (1999), Not Paved With Gold: Italian-Canadian Immigrants in the 1970s (2006), and Harvest Pilgrims: (2010), as well as many other books. In 2010 he was awarded the Cesar E. Chavez Black Eagle Award (Cultural) by the UFCW for his work photographing migrant workers and recording their stories. This work is the basis of Harvest Pilgrims.
