- Keywords: Macedonian-Canadian, immigrant experience, community building.
- Timeline: Early 1900s.
- Summary: Stressing the importance of collecting immigrant stories, Harney states: “However, to pass through ethnic boundaries to ethnic identities, the immigrants’ own account of his urban experience is necessary … We include a sampler of materials on the Macedonians in Toronto, materials that have been donated to the Multicultural History Society of Ontario” (p. 60).
Harney, R.F. (1979). Men without women: Italian migrants in Canada, 1885-1930. Canadian Ethnic Studies, 11, 1, 29-47.
- Keywords: Italian-Canadian, immigrant experience, community building.
- Timeline: 1885-1930.
- Summary: Combining documented historical material along with personal narratives will help to create a fuller picture of Italian-Canadian immigrant experiences in the late 1800s and early 1900s: “The real history of the sojourners and of Canadian “Little Italies” will only be within our reach when all the possible archival and statistical sources are used along with “memory culture” (p. 42).
Harney, R.F. (1981). Toronto’s Little Italy, 1885-1945. In R.F. Harney & J.V. Scarpaci (Eds.) Little Italies in North America. Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario. (pp. 63-84)
- Keywords: Western European, Italian-Canadian, community building, Toronto.
- Timeline: 1885-1945.
- Summary: In summarizing the paper/chapter, Harney states: “This paper … deals not with the contemporary immigrant city but with the more threatened history and vanished world of the pre-World War Two Italian Canadian: a world which formed part of the classic turn-of-the-century Italian diaspora throughout the Americas, a space which was neither fully Canadian nor Italian” (p. 63).
