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A grocery store in Little Italy, 1910s Saint Laurent Boulevard in Little Italy. Sign of Mirador, a restaurant in Montreal owned by an Italian immigrant, July 1948. The Italian presence in Quebec dates to the seventeenth century, when Italians from the Piedmont region served in the Carignan-Salières Regiment.
Little Italy is the catch-all name for an ethnic enclave populated primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. The concept of "Little Italy" holds many different aspects of the Italian culture .
World Cup in Little Italy. Montreal has the second largest Italian population in Canada after Toronto. There are around 250,000 Montrealers of Italian ancestry living within its Metropolitan Area. Montreal's Little Italy, located on St. Lawrence Boulevard between Jean-Talon and St. Zotique, is home to Montreal's original Italian Canadian ...
The Church of the Madonna della Difesa (Italian: Chiesa della Madonna della Difesa, French: Église de Notre-Dame-de-la-Défense) is a Catholic church in the neighbourhood of Little Italy in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Jean-Talon Market is a farmer's market in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located in the Little Italy district, the market is bordered by Jean-Talon Street to the north, Mozart Ave. to the south, Casgrain Ave. to the west and Henri-Julien Ave. to the east. It contains two city-maintained streets both called Place du Marché du Nord.
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A grocery store owned by an Italian family in Little Italy, 1910s. In 1893 there were about 1,400 ethnic Italians in Montreal. [3] During this time, Italian employment agencies that worked with Canadian steamship and railway companies attracted many Italian labourers to Montreal. [4]
Italian Canadians primarily immigrated to Toronto and Montreal. [11] In Toronto, the Italian population increased from 4,900 in 1911, to 9,000 in 1921, constituting almost two percent of Toronto's population. [12] Italians in Toronto and in Montreal soon established ethnic enclaves, especially Little Italies in Toronto and in Montreal.