The Portuguese in Canada: From the Sea to the City

by Da Rosa, Victor M. P.; Rosa, Victor M. P. Da; Warkentin, John; Teixeira, Carlos

• ISBN13: 9780802047540
• ISBN10: 0802047548
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

The essays in this volume examine everything from the history of the Portuguese diaspora, to language, identity, history, and literature, to the urban experiences of Portuguese women and men, especially in Montreal and Toronto.

Author Biography

CARLOS TEIXEIRA teaches in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. VICTOR M.P. DA ROSA teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Ottawa.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	vii
Foreword	ix
John Warkentin
Acknowledgments	xv
Contributors	xvii
Introduction: A Historical and Geographical Perspective	3	(12)
Carlos Teixeira
Victor M.P. Da Rosa
The Portuguese Diaspora	15	(22)
Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade
Part One: Newfoundland and the White Fleet
The White Fleet and the Iconography of Control	37	(16)
Priscilla A. Doel
Portuguese Fishermen in Newfoundland	53	(15)
Jean-Pierre Andrieux
Remembering the Portuguese	68	(15)
Peter Collins
Part Two: Immigration from Portugal to Canada
Immigrants Forever? The Migratory Saga of Azoreans in Canada	83	(14)
Manuel Armando Oliveira
Voices of Immigrant Women	97	(15)
Ilda Januario
Manuela Marujo
Value Conflicts and Cultural Adjustment in North America	112	(15)
Onesimo Teotonio Almeida
Part Three: Language and Ethnic Identity
Two Decades of Heritage Language Education	127	(18)
Rena Helms-Park
Influences on Portuguese Spoken in Montreal	145	(13)
Manuela Dias-Tatilon
Diasporic Identities at Century's End	158	(17)
Edite Noivo
Part Four: `Little Portugals'
Building a Neighbourhood in Montreal	175	(16)
Gilles Lavigne
Carlos Teixeira
The Portuguese Community in Quebec	191	(16)
Victor M.P. Da Rosa
Carlos Teixeira
On the Move: Portuguese in Toronto	207	(16)
Carlos Teixeira
Part Five: `A Future to Inherit': History and Literature
Literature of Portuguese Background in Canada	223	(13)
Antonio Augusto Joel
A Sense of History	236
David Higgs