The social structure of the Italian and Ukrainian immigrant communities in Montreal, 1935-1937

During the past few years a number of thorough studies have been made of immigration into Canada and the United states. These have not only revealed the quantitative movement of large numbers of people across international boundaries with the expressed intention of establishing permanent residence, but have also indicated the precise nature of the social process of immigration. The studies of’ the latter have been most profitable in bringing out the causative factors of migration and the by-productual results affecting individual personalities and the general body politic among which they seek an economic and social niche. [...