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Kensington

by (author) Jean Cochrane

photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo

Publisher
Boston Mills Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2000
Category
General, Emigration & Immigration, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781550463385
    Publish Date
    Sep 2000
    List Price
    $39.95

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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

Jean Cochrane's profile page

 

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.

 

Vincenzo Pietropaolo's profile page

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