Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca
About 2 million Canadians trace their ancestry back to Italy; that's about 5% of the population.
Evan Prodromou@evan@cosocial.ca
Italy's history in the 1800s is one of throwing off foreign occupation and uniting into one nation - the Risorgimento - that culminated in the 1860s. The irony is that a population boom and economic downturn directly related to the unifying wars led to a generation that could not find room in the nation their parents and grandparents had made for them. A flow of emigration to the Americas, including Canada, ensued.