Bibliography on Immigration and Settlement in the Toronto Area |
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© Michael Doucet, 1999School of Applied Geography
Ryerson Polytechnic University
Table of Contents
- Geographic and Demographic Patterns
- Guidebooks and Directories
- Racism, Discrimination, Race Relations, and Related Studies
- Services for Immigrants
- Socialization, Adaptation, and Related Works
- Miscellaneous General Works
B) Studies of Particular Groups or Communities
- Black and West Indian Community
- Chinese Community
- Eastern European Communities
- East Indian and Southwest Asian Communities
- French Community
- German Community
- Greek Community
- Hispanic Communities
- Irish Community
- Italian Community
- Japanese Community
- Jewish Community
- Native American/Aboriginal Communities
- Other Western European Communities
- Portuguese Community
- South East Asian Communities
- Miscellaneous Communities
C) Fictional Accounts of the Immigrant Experience
B) Studies of Particular Groups or Communities
Black and West Indian Community
AGARD, Ralph L. "Sociocultural, Intelligence and Achievement Scores in a Black Toronto Population: An Analysis for Programming Decisions," Ed.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1982.
ALEXANDER, Ken and GLAZE, Avis. Towards Freedom: The African-Canadian Experience [Many Toronto references] (Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1996).
ANDERSON, W.W. and GRANT, R.W. The New Newcomers: Patterns of Adjustment of West Indian Immigrant Children in Metropolitan Toronto Schools (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1987).
AUSTIN, Bobby William. "The Social Status of Blacks in Toronto," Ph.D. thesis, McMaster University, 1972.
BESERVE, Christopher Abilogun. "Relationship Between Home Environment and Cognitive and Personality Characteristics of Working-Class West Indian Pupils in Toronto: Consequences for Their Education," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1976.
Blackpages Directory: Business Listings and Information Guide, Metropolitan Toronto & Montreal [Directory of black businesses and professionals] (Toronto: Blackpages Network Inc., annual since 1989).
BRAND, Dionne. No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920s to 1950s [Ten of the fifteen women interviewed were Torontonians] (Toronto: Women's Press, 1991).
BROWN, Winston Lloyd. "West Indian Youth in Metro Toronto: The Relative Effects of Home and School Related Variables on Their Attitudes Towards Participation in Post-Secondary Education," Ed.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1984.
CHAMBERS, Geanine. "An Analysis of the Lower Class West Indian Family Pattern in Toronto," M.A. thesis, University of Windsor, 1977.
CHRISTIANSEN, Juliette M., THORNLEY-BROWN, Anne, and ROBINSON, Jean A. West Indians in Toronto: Implications for Helping Professionals (Toronto: Family Service Association of Metropolitan Toronto, 1982).
CITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. The Caribbean Community in Toronto, Ethnocultural and Health Profiles of Communities in Toronto, No. 5 (Toronto: City of Toronto Department of Public Health, 1989).
D'OYLEY, Vincent (ed.) Black Students in Urban Canada, Special Issue of T.E.S.L. Talk [Some Toronto references] (Toronto: Ministry of Culture and Recreation, 1976).
DuBARRY, Jean Bernadette. "The Development and Application of a Diagnostic-Prescriptive Reading Programme for West Indian English-Creole Speakers in the Elementary School," [Based on a study of 9 to 11 year olds in Toronto], Ph.D. thesis, University of Southampton (United Kingdom), 1990.
FOSTER, Cecil. A Place Called Heaven [About the Black experience in Canada] (Toronto: Harper Collins, 1996) [Gordon Montador Award from the Writers' Development Trust - 1997].
FOSTER, Cecil and SCHWARZ, Chris. Caribana: The Greatest Celebration (Toronto: Ballantine Books, 1995).
GRIZZLE, Stanley. My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Canada: Personal Reminiscences of Stanley G. Grizzle (Toronto: Umbrella Press, 1997).
GUPTA, Nila and SILVERA, Makeda (eds.) The Issue Is 'Ism: Women of Colour Speak Out (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1989).
HEAD, Wilson. The Black Presence in the Canadian Mosaic: A Study of the Perception and Practice of Discrimination Against Blacks in Metropolitan Toronto (Toronto: The Ontario Human Rights Commission, 1975).
________. Adaptation of Immigrants in Metro Toronto: Perceptions of Ethnic and Racial Discrimination: An Exploratory Study (Toronto: York University, 1980).
________. Life on the Edge ... Experience In "Black and White" in North America [Scholar and activist in Toronto' Black community - published posthumously after Head's death, at age 79, in 1992] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for Sandy Head, 1995).
HENRY, Frances. The Caribbean Diaspora in Toronto (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994).
HENRY, Keith S. Black Politics in Toronto Since World War I, Occasional Papers in Ethnic and Immigration Studies 81-12 (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1981).
________. Black Politics in Toronto Since World War I (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1981).
HILL, Daniel Grafton. "Negroes in Toronto: A Sociological Study of a Minority Group," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1960.
________. The Freedom-Seekers: Blacks in Early Canada [Not exclusively about Torontonians, but does include discussions of people such as Ruffin Abbott Anderson, a Torontonian who became the first Canadian-born black doctor] (Agincourt: Book Society of Canada, 1981).
HILL, Donna (ed.) A Black Man's Toronto 1914-1980: The Reminiscences of Harry Gairey (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1981).
HUBBARD, Stephen. Against All Odds: The Story of William Peyton Hubbard, Black Leader and Municipal Reformer (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1987).
JAMAICAN CANADIAN ASSOCIATION. Caribbean Seniors Development Project (Toronto: Jamaican Canadian Association, 1985).
JAMES, Carl. Making It: Black Youth, Racism, and Career Aspirations in a Big City (Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1990).
JOSEPH, Janice Odetta. "West Indian Youths in Toronto in Conflict with the Law," Ph.D. thesis, York University, 1984.
KASOZI, A.B.K. The Integration of Black African Immigrants in Canadian Society: A Case Study of Toronto CMA, 1986 (Toronto: Canadian-African Newcomer Aid Centre of Toronto, 1988).
MANNING, William. My Name Is Eva [Biography of Eva Smith, community worker in Toronto's Black community who arrived in Toronto from Jamaica in 1956] (Toronto: Natural Heritage/Natural History, 1995).
MOENO, Sylvia Ntlantla. "The `Non-White' South Africans in Toronto: A Study of the Effects of `Institutionalized' Apartheid in a Multicultural Society," Ph.D. thesis, York University, 1981.
PHILIP, M. Nourbese. Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture, 1984-1992 [Many of the pieces deal with Toronto] (Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press, 1992).
________. Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel [Examines the efforts of some members of Toronto's Black community to prevent the staging of the musical Show Boat at the North York Centre for the Performing Arts] (Toronto: Poui Publications, 1994).
RAY, Brian Kelvin. "Immigrants in a `Multicultural' Toronto: Exploring the Contested Social and Housing Geographies of Post-War Italian and Caribbean Immigrants," Ph.D. thesis, Queen's University, 1992.
REFERENCE GROUP. Addressing the Needs and Issues of Black M.T.H.A. Residents (Toronto: Reference Group for the Metropolitan Toronto Housing Authority, 1991).
SCHREIBER, Jan Edward. In the Course of Discovery: West Indian Immigrants in Toronto Schools (Toronto: Board of Education for the City of Toronto, 1971).
SILVERA, Makeda. Silenced: Talks with Working Class Caribbean Women about Their Lives and Struggles as Domestic Workers in Canada (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1989).
________. Growing Up Black: A Resource Manual for Black Youth (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1990).
SILVERA, Makeda (ed.) Black Girl Talk [Based on interviews with 200 young Black women] (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1996).
SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF METROPOLITAN TORONTO. The Adoption of Negro Children: A Community-Wide Approach (Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto, 1966).
SOLOMON, Rovell Patrick. "The Creation of Separatism: The Lived Culture of West Indian Boys in a Toronto High School," Ph.D. thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1987.
TAYLOR, Sheldon. "Darkening the Complexion of Canadian Society: Black Activism, Policy-Making, and Immigration from the Caribbean to Canada between the 1940s and 1960s," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1994.
TORONTO BOARD OF EDUCATION. Final Report of the Consultative Committee on the Education of Black Students in Toronto Schools (Toronto: Toronto Board of Education, 1988).
Toward a New Beginning: Report and Action Plan of the Four-Level Government/African Canadian Community Working Group [Set up in the aftermath of the riots on Yonge Street in May of 1992] (Toronto: Four-Level Government/African Canadian Community Working Group, 1992).
WALCOTT, Rinaldo. Black Like Who? (Toronto: Insomniac Press, 1997).
YON, Daniel A. "Migration, Schooling, and the Politics of Identity: A Case Study of Caribbean Students in a Toronto High School," M.A. thesis, York University, 1991.
CANNON, Margaret. The China Tide: The Revealing Story of the Hong Kong Exodus to Canada [Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal] (Toronto: Harper & Collins, 1989).
CHAN, Samuel Sum-Yee. "Growing Chinese Boomer Churches in Toronto," D.Min. thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1991.
DAVISON, Anne M. "An Analysis of the Significant Factors in the Patterns of Toronto Chinese Family Life as a Result of the Recent Changes in Immigration Laws which Permitted Wives of Canadian Citizens to Enter Canada," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1952.
GRAYSON, J. Paul; CHI, Tammy; and RHYNE, Darla. The Social Construction of `Visible Minority' for Students of Chinese Origin (North York: Institute for Social Research, York University, 1994).
HONG FOOK MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION. Working with Chinese and Southeast Asian Families - Practical Approaches (Toronto: Hong Fook Mental Health Association, 1986).
HUANG, Evelyn. Chinese Canadians: Voices from a Community [Includes several Torontonians] (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1992).
KEO, John Yun-Han. "A Manual for Growth Group Leaders of Toronto Chinese Community Church," D.Min. thesis, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1988.
KO, Eva Marie. "A Survey of Leisure-Time Activities of the Chinese in Downtown Toronto," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1964.
LAI, David Chuenyan. Chinatowns: Towns within Cities in Canada [Some Toronto references] (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1988).
LAI, Vivien Wai-Ying. "The Assimilation of Chinese Immigrants in Toronto," M.A. thesis, York University, 1970.
MANN, Richard and KOO, Johnny. Toronto Chinatown (Toronto: n.p., n.d.).
STOLLAR, Martyn. Exploring Chinatown: A Complete Guide to Eating Excitement in Toronto's Chinatown (Toronto: Tan-Gent Publications, 1979).
THOMPSON, Richard Henry. "The State and the Ethnic Community: The Changing Social Organization of Toronto's Chinatown," Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, 1979.
________. Toronto's Chinatown: The Changing Social Organization of an Ethnic Community (New York: AMS Press Inc., 1989).
WICKBERG, Edgar. From China to Canada: A History of Chinese Communities in Canada [Not exclusively about Toronto] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983).
XIE, Jing. "Housing Search Behaviour: A Case Study of Chinese New Immigrants in Metropolitan Toronto," M.Pl. thesis, Queen's University, 1991.
YIU, Esther Kam Yu. "Youth in Need: A Study of the Need for After-School Programs Geared to the Acculturation of Chinese Immigrant Youth from Downtown Toronto," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
ADOLF, Jacek Z. "Adaptation of East European Refugees and Political Emigres in Toronto, with Special Reference to Immigrants from Poland and Czechoslovakia," Ph.D. thesis, York University, 1977.
BALICKI, Asen. Remarques Sur La Structure du Groupe Ethnique Bulgare et Macédonien de Toronto (Ottawa: National Museum of Canada, 1956).
CHUMAK-HORBATSCH, Roma. "Language in the Ukrainian Home: Its Use in Ten Toronto Families Attempting to Preserve Their Mother Tongue," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1984.
DANYS, Milda. DP: Lithuanian Immigration to Canada After the Second World War [Not exclusively about Toronto] (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1986).
HERMAN, Harry Vjekoslav. Men in White Aprons: A Study of Ethnicity and Occupation [Toronto Macedonian community] (Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1978).
JURKSZUS, Jadwiga and TOMASZEWSKI, Adam. Toronto, Tronto, Trana [Poles in Toronto] (Toronto: privately published, 1967).
KERTESZ, Sandor. Curtain at Eight: The Twenty-Three Year History of the Hungarian Art Theatre of Toronto [Text also in Hungarian] (Toronto: S. Kertesz, 1982).
LAAR, Kadr-Ann. "The Estonian Kindergarten in Toronto, A Case Study," thesis, University of Toronto, 1990.?
MAGOCSI, Paul R. Ukrainica at the University of Toronto Library: A Catalogue of Holdings (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1985).
MITER, Anica. Croatica in the University of Toronto Library (Sudbury: HISAK-CSAC, 1985).
MORAWSKA, Eva; HEYKENKORN, Benedykt; and KUGLER, Rudolf. Poles in Toronto, in Their Own Perception (Toronto: Canadian-Polish Research Institute, 1982).
PEJOVIC, Zoran. "Boulevard of Dreams: Croatians and Education in Ontario," [Based on case study of Toronto area], Ph.D. thesis, York University, 1989.
PERKOWSKI, Jan L. Gusle and Ganga Among the Herzego-vinians of Toronto (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Museum of Man, 1973-4).
PETROFF, Lillian. The Macedonian Community in Toronto to 1930: Women and Emigration, Canadian Women's History Series No. 5 (Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1977).
________. "The Macedonian Community in Toronto to 1940," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1983.
RADECKI, Henry and HEYDENKORN, Benedykt. A Member of a Distinguished Family: The Polish Group in Canada [Not exclusively about Poles in Toronto] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart and the Minister of Supply and Services Canada, 1976).
RASPORICH, Anthony W. For a Better Life (Za Bolje Zivot): A History of Croatians in Canada [Not exclusively about Toronto] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982).
SHAHRODI, Zofia "From Sojourners to Settlers: The Formation of Polonia in Toronto and Hamilton, 1896-1929," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1990.
East Indian and Southwest Asian Communities
AHMED, Abu Ishaque Mahbub Uddin. "Class and Ethnic Consciousness Among the Bangladeshis in Toronto: Historical Bases and Current Patterns," Ph.D. thesis, York University, 1985.
CITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. The Sri Lankan Tamil Community in Toronto, Ethnocultural and Health Profiles of Communities in Toronto, No. 6 (Toronto: City of Toronto Department of Public Health, 1989).
EASTMAN, Julia Antonia. "Race, Ethnicity, and Class: The Response to Discrimination of East Indians in Toronto," M.A. thesis, Queen's University, 1980.
HANDA, Arvind. Conversations with (East) Indian Youth (Toronto: Indian Immigrant Aid Services, [n.d.]).
INDIAN IMMIGRANT AID SERVICES. South Asians in Transition: Problems and Challenges (Toronto: Indian Immigrant Aid Services, 1984).
Indians in Toronto 1977: Report on a Conference (Toronto: Indian Immigrant Aid Services, [1977]).
KURIAN, George and SHRIVASTAVA, Ram. Overseas Indians - A Study in Adaptation (Calgary: Detselig Enterprises Ltd., 1982).
NASSER-BUSH, Nerun Hussein. "Differential Adjustment between Two Indian Immigrant Communities in Toronto: Sikhs and Ismailies," Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1974.
SENTSEY, Helen. A Preliminary Study of the Music of the East Indians in Toronto (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Museum of Man, 1973-4).
SUBRAMANIAM, Indira Anne. "Identity-Shift: Post-Migration Changes in Identity Among First-Generation East Indian Immigrants in Toronto," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1978.
UBALE, Bhausaheb. Equal Opportunity and Public Policy: A Report on the Concerns of the South Asian Canadian Community (Toronto, [1977]).
YASMIN, Marziya. "Ethnic Identity Retention of the Bangladeshi Immigrants in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area," M.A. thesis, University of Guelph, 1982.
GUILLAUME, Pierre. Aspects de la Francophonie Torontoise, Publications de la Maison des Sciences de l'homme d'Aquataine No. 48 (Bordeau: Centre d'études Canadiennes, 1981).
LACHAPELLE, Claire. La Vie Francaise a Toronto, Documents historiques No. 13 (Sudbury: Société historique du Nouvel-Ontario, 1947).
Le Bottin des Ressources Franco-Torontoises (Toronto: Conseil Regional du Toronto Metropolitaine, Association Canadienne-Francaise de l'Ontario, [1982]).
MAXWELL, Thomas Robert. "The French Population of Metropolitan Toronto: A Study of Ethnic Participation and Ethnic Identity," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1971.
________. The Invisible French: The French in Metropolitan Toronto (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1977).
NEILLY, Ethel S. French Emigré Settlement in York County (Toronto: Women's Canadian Historical Society of Toronto, 1926).
STANSFIELD, David. How To Live French in Toronto (Toronto: Ontario Educational Communications Authority, 1975).
THERRIEN, Laurier F.J. A Structural Analysis of the Residential Space of `French Toronto' 1951-1971, Geography Research Paper (Downsview, Ontario: Department of Geography, York University, 1975).
HELLING, Rudolf A. "A Comparison of the Acculturation of German Immigrants in Toronto, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan," Ph.D. thesis, Wayne State University, 1962.
SCHINDLER, Karl J. Aussaat und Ernte: Jahrbuch zum Funfzigjahrigen Jubilaum der Deutschsprachigen Katholischen Gemeinde von Toronto, 1929-1979 [History of German Catholics in Toronto] (Toronto: s.n., 1979).
ALMYROUDIS, Eleftheria. "The Acculturation of Greek Immigrants in Toronto, Canada," M.A. thesis, Queen's University, 1991.
CITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. The Greek Canadian Community in Toronto, Ethnocultural and Health Profiles of Communities in Toronto, No. 4 (Toronto: City of Toronto Department of Public Health, 1989).
JORDANOUS, Myrianthis. "Multicultural Education Program Serving the Toronto Greek Community: A Qualitative Study," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1991.
ORLOWSKI, Duane Edmund. "Unstable Urban Bilingualism: The Mother Tongue Socialization of the Children of Greek Immigrants in Toronto, Canada," Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977.
POLYZOI, Eleoussa. "A Long Way from Home: A Study of the Greek Immigrant Experience," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1982.
CITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. The Spanish Canadian Community in Toronto, Ethnocultural and Health Profiles of Communities in Toronto, No. 8 (Toronto: City of Toronto Department of Public Health, 1992).
HERNANDO, Solange. This Side of Spain: A Profile of Spaniards in Ontario [Mostly about Toronto] (Toronto: Club Hispano of Toronto, 1990).
HISPANIC SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL. Socio-Economic Profile: Needs and Gaps of the Hispanic Community in Metropolitan Toronto (Toronto: Hispanic Social Development Council, 1983).
MEREDITH, Diane. "Guatemalan Refugees and Their Process of Adjustment in Toronto," M.A. thesis, York University, 1992.
AKENSON, Donald H. The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural History [Some Toronto references] (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1984).
________. Being Had: Historians, Evidence, and the Irish in North America [Some Toronto references] (Port Credit, Ontario: P.D. Meany Publishers, 1985).
________. Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants [Some Toronto references] (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988).
CLARKE, Brian P. "Piety, Nationalism, and Fraternity: The Rise of Irish Catholic Voluntary Associations in Toronto, 1850-1895," Ph.D. thesis, University of Chicago, 1986.
________. Piety and Nationalism: Lay Voluntary Associations and the Creation of an Irish-Catholic Community in Toronto, 1850-1895 (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993).
CONNOR, Daniel. "The Irish Canadian: Image and Self-Image," M.A. thesis, University of British Columbia, 1976.
COTTRELL, Michael Joseph. "`Rapacious as Hell or a Miser': Irish Catholic Political Leadership in Toronto, 1855-1882," Ph.D. thesis, University of Saskatchewan, 1988.
HOUSTON, Cecil J. and Smyth, William J. The Sash Canada Wore: A Historical Geography of the Orange Order in Canada [Many references to the Orange Order in Toronto] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980).
________. Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement: Patterns, Links & Letters [Some Toronto references] (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990).
McGEE, Robert. "The Toronto Irish Catholic Press and Fenianism, 1863-1866," M.A. thesis, University of Ottawa, 1969.
NICOLSON, Murray William Wood. "The Irish Catholics and Their Church in Victorian Toronto, 1850-1900" Ph.D. thesis, University of Guelph, 1980.
O'DRISCOLL, Robert and REYNOLDS, Lorna (eds.) The Untold Story: The Irish in Canada [Many Toronto references] (Toronto: Celtic Arts of Canada, 1988).
SENIOR, Hereward. The Fenians in Canada [Some Toronto references] (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1978).
BAGNELL, Kenneth. Canadese: A Portrait of Italian Canadians [Not exclusively about Toronto's Italians] (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1989).
CICCOCELLI, Joseph. "Italian Immigration in Toronto," M.A. thesis, University of Western Ontario, 1977.
DANZIGER, Kurt. The Socialization of Immigrant Children [A study of Italians, chiefly in Toronto] (Toronto: Ethnic Research Program, Institute for Behavioral Research, York University, 1971).
FERRARIS, Mary. "Factors Influencing the Integration of a Group of Italian Women Immigrants in Toronto," M.A. thesis, York University, 1969.
GABORI, Susan. In Search of Paradise: The Odyssey of an Italian Family (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993)
GIULIANO, Bruce B. Sacro o Profano?: A Consideration of Four Italian-Canadian Religious Festivals, Research Paper No. 17 (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, National Museums of Ottawa, 1976).
GORYS, Paul. "The Pisterzoni in Toronto: A Case Study of an Ethnic Subgroup," M.A. thesis, York University, 1983.
HARNEY, Nicholas DiMaria. Eh, Paesan!: Being Italian in Toronto (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998).
HARNEY, Robert and SCARPACI, J. Vincenza (eds.) Little Italies in North America [Some Toronto references] (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1981).
IACOVETTA, Franca. "Working Class Immigrants: Southern Italians in Post War Toronto, 1946-1965," Ph.D. thesis, York University, 1988.
________. Such Hardworking People: Italian Immigrants in Postwar Toronto (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992).
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF ITALIAN-CANADIANS. Italian-Canadians in Metro: Do We Get the Services We Pay For? (Toronto: National Congress of Italian-Canadians (Toronto District), 1980).
PURBHOO, Mary and SHAPSON, Stan. Transition from Italian (Toronto: Research Department, Toronto Board of Education, 1975).
RAY, Brian Kelvin. "Immigrants in a `Multicultural' Toronto: Exploring the Contested Social and Housing Geographies of Post-War Italian and Caribbean Immigrants," Ph.D. thesis, Queen's University, 1992.
SIDLOFSKY, Samuel. "Post-War Immigrants in the Changing Metropolis with Special Reference to Toronto's Italian Population," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1969.
SIMONE, Nick. Italian Immigrants in Toronto, 1890-1930, Discussion Paper No. 26 (Downsview, Ontario: Department of Geography, York University, 1981).
Some Observations on Italian Immigrants in Toronto (Ottawa: Economic and Social Research Division, Department of Citizenship and Immigration, 1961).
STURINO, Franc. "Inside the Chain: A Case Study in Southern Italian Migration to North America, 1880-1930," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1981.
________. Forging the Chain: Migration to North America, 1880-1930 [Focuses on migration from the Rende area of Italy to Toronto] (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1990).
TOMASI, Lydio Francis. "The Other Catholics: The Institutional Role of the Church in the Adjustment Process of Metro Toronto's Italians, A Survey Research," Ph.D. thesis, New York University, 1984.
VENDETTI, M.P. "The Italian Ethnic Community of Metropolitan Toronto: A Case in Intra-Urban Network," M.A. thesis, York University, 1975.
WEINFELD, Morton Irwin. "Determinants of Ethnic Identification of Slavs, Jews, and Italians in Toronto," Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1977.
ZIEGLER, Suzanne Gross. "The Adaptation of Italian Immigrants to Toronto: An Analysis," Ph.D. thesis, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1971.
ZIEGLER, Suzanne and RICHMOND, A.H. Characteristics of Italian Householders in Metropolitan Toronto (Downsview, Ontario: Institute for Behavioural Research, York University, 1972).
ZUCCHI, John E. "Paesani in a Toronto Neighbourhood: The Italian Immigrants of the `Ward,' 1870-1949," M.A. thesis, University of Toronto, 1979.
________. "Italians in Toronto: Development of a National Identity, 1875-1935," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1984.
________. The Italian Immigrants of the St. John's Ward 1875-1915: Patterns of Settlement and Neighbourhood Preservation, Occasional Paper in Ethnic and Immigration Studies 81-10 (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1981).
________. Italians in Toronto: Development of a National Identity, 1875-1935 (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988).
MAKABE, Tomoko. "Ethnic Group Identity: Canadian Born Japanese in Metropolitan Toronto," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1976.
WANGENHEIM, Elizabeth Dean. "The Social Organization of the Japanese Community in Toronto: A Product of Crisis," M.A. thesis, University of Toronto, 1956.
BAKER, Sylvia K. "Integration of Jewish Immigrants from Morocco into the Toronto Area: A Comment on the Relationship between Integration and Disciplinary Problems with Their Children Experienced by Parents from Morocco," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1965.
BAYCREST TERRACE MEMOIRS GROUP. From Our Lives: Memoirs, Life Stories, Episodes, and Recollections, introduction by Morley Torgov [Remembrances of 22 Jewish seniors] (Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1979).
BELFORD, Joan E. "Factors Affecting the Use of Community Services by Jewish Youth in North York, with Reference to the Relationship between Strength of Jewish Identity in Adolescents and Degree of Cross-Cultural Contact," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
BETCHERMAN, Lita-Rose. The Swastika and the Maple Leaf [Some Toronto references] (Toronto: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1975).
BODEN, Frederick K. "Factors Affecting the Use of Community Services by Jewish Youth in North York, with Reference to the Correlation between Age and the Use of Community Services," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
CANADIAN JEWISH CONGRESS. CENTRAL REGION. Highlights of Toronto's Jewish History [typescript] (Toronto: Canadian Jewish Congress, 1956).
COHEN, Judith R. "Judeo-Spanish Songs in the Sephardic Communities of Montreal and Toronto: Survival, Function and Change," Ph.D. thesis, University of Montreal, 1989.
COUPLAND, Ronald F. "Sectarian Communal and Religious Organizations, with Special Reference to Their Function as `Circulation Enabling' and `Match-Making' Institutions for Jewish Youth," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
DAVIES, Alan (ed.) Antisemitism in Canada: History and Interpretations [Several of the essays deal with antisemitism in Toronto] (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1992).
DUNKLEMAN, Ben. Dual Allegiance: An Autobiography (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1976).
EINDERBINDER, E. "Study of Attitudes Towards Jews in Toronto," M.A. thesis, University of Toronto, 1934.
FELDBRILL, Zeld. "The Adjustment of European Youth in the Toronto Jewish Community," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1952.
FRAGER, Ruth A. Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992).
GARTON, Lorraine E. "Jewish Youth and the Community, with Specific Reference to the Association between Adolescent Jewish Identity and Agreement with Parents' Jewish Identity," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
GERENDAS-GIANONE, Otto. "Integration of Moroccan Jews into the Toronto Community, with Emphasis on Work Experience," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1965.
GREEN, Elaine B. "Factors Influencing the Use of Community Services by Jewish Youth in North York, with Reference to the Differential Influence of the Peer Group and the Parent Group and the Strength of Jewish Identity of the Jewish Adolescent," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
GREENBERG, Zeev. "Israeli Immigrants in Toronto," M.A. thesis, York University, 1971.
GROSSMAN, Ibolya (Szalai). An Ordinary Woman in Extraordinary Times [Reminiscences of a Hungarian-Jewish woman who settled in Toronto at the age of 40] (Toronto: Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario, 1990).
HENIG, Harry. Orphan of the Storm, introduction by Rabbi Dr. David Monson [Memoirs of a man who moved into Toronto's Jewish community in the mid-1930s] (Toronto: Pitt Publishing Co., 1974).
HIEBERT, Daniel. "The Geography of Jewish Immigrants and the Garment Industry in Toronto, 1901-1931," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1987.
History of B'Nai B'Rith in Eastern Canada [Many Toronto references] (Toronto: B'Nai B'Rith District Grand Lodge No. 22, 1964).
KAYFETZ, Ben. Toronto Jewry: An Historical Sketch (Toronto: Central Region, Canadian Jewish Congress, 1969).
KING, William L.M. Toronto Jewry 60 Years Ago (Toronto: Canadian Jewish Congress Central Region, 1958).
KINSELLA, Warren. Web of Hate: Inside Canada's Far Right Network [Many Toronto references] (Toronto: Harper Collins, 1994).
KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT, Barbara. "Traditional Storytelling in the Toronto Jewish Community: A Study in Performance and Creativity in an Immigrant Culture," Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 1972.
LABARGE, Claire M. "Jewish Youth in the Community: Jewish Identification and Its Relationship to Choice of Friends and Use of Services," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
LANDER, Alvin Irwin. "Social Spending Attitudes among Canadian Jews: An Empirically Grounded and Phenomenological Approach," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1990.
LAPPIN, Adah. The Story of the Jewish Community of Toronto, 1856-1957 (Toronto: Bureau of Jewish Education, 1957).
LATOWSKY, Evelyn Kallen. "Three Toronto Synagogues: A Comparative Study of Religious Systems in Transition," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1969.
LAZAROU, Linda Hoermann. "Integration of Jewish Immigrants from Morocco into the Toronto Community: Social and Community Relationships," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1966.
LEVITT, Cyril H. and SHAFFIR, William. The Riot at Christie Pits, foreword by Robert Fulford (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1987) [City of Toronto Book Awards Finalist - 1988].
MARKUS, Roberta Lander. Adaptation: A Case Study of Soviet Jewish Immigrant Children in Toronto, 1970-1978 (Toronto: Permanent Press, 1979).
MESBUR, Ellen Sue. "Sub-Group Response Toward Legislation Against Hate Propaganda in the Jewish Community of Toronto," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1967.
MUNRO, P. F. "An Experimental Investigation of the Mentality of the Jew in Ryerson Public School, Toronto," D.Paed. thesis, University of Toronto, 1926.
PADY, Cecil A. "Religious Conviction and Behaviour of Jewish Youth," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
PARIS, Erna. Jews: An Account of Their Experience in Canada [Six of the seventeen chapters deal with Toronto] (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1980).
PIRIE, Margaret C. "Patterns of Mobility and Assimilation: A Study of the Toronto Jewish Community," Ph.D. thesis, Yale University, 1957.
ROSENBERG, Leah. The Errand Runner: Reflections of a Rabbi's Daughter [Rosenberg spent her girlhood in Toronto] (Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 1981).
ROSENBERG, Louis. A Study of the Changes in the Geographic Distribution of the Jewish Population in the Metropolitan Area of Toronto 1851-1951 (Montreal: Canadian Jewish Congress, 1954).
________. Population Characteristics of the Jewish Community of Toronto (Montreal: Canadian Jewish Congress, 1955).
ROSENBERG, Stuart E. (ed.) A Humane Society (Toronto: University of Toronto Press for Beth Tzedec Congregation, 1962).
SCHOENFELD, Stuart (ed.) The Changing Jewish Community: A Symposium on Current Research (Downsview, Ontario: Ethnic Research Programme, Institute for Behavioural Research, York University, 1983).
SIEMENS, Gerhard J. "A Study of the Dermatoglyphics of Jewish People of Toronto and Chicago," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1947.
SPACK, Margaret. "Integration of Jewish Immigrants from Morocco into the Toronto Community, with Emphasis on the Use of and Attitudes Towards the Social Services," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1965.
SPEISMAN, Stephen Alan. "The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1975.
________. The Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979) [City of Toronto Book Award Winner - 1980].
TAIEB-CARLEN, Sarah. "Assessment of a Small Group Ethnic Identity: the Jews in North Africa and the North African Jews in Toronto," Ph.D. thesis, York University, 1989.
The Changing Jewish Community: A Symposium on Current Research Held at York University, January 2, 1982 (Downsview: Ethnic Research Programme, Institute for Behavioural Research, York University, 1983).
TULCHINSKY, Gerald. Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community [Some Toronto references] (Toronto: Lester Publishing, 1992).
UNITED JEWISH WELFARE FUND. Report on the Health and Welfare Needs of the Toronto Jewish Community (Toronto: Social Planning Committee, United Jewish Welfare Fund, 1969).
WEIMANN, Gabriel and WINN, Conrad. Hate on Trial: The Zundel Affair, The Media, and Public Opinion in Canada (Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1986).
WEINFELD, Morton Irwin. "Determinants of Ethnic Identification of Slavs, Jews, and Italians in Toronto," Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University, 1977.
WHITNEY, W. Bruce. "Jewish Youth and the Community: The Relationship between Behaviour and Participation in Organized Community Activities," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1969.
YORKE, Elizabeth A. "Youth in the Jewish Community, with Reference to the Relationship between Sex and Affiliation with the Jewish Community," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1968.
ZADOR, Thomas H. "The Integration of Moroccan Jews into the Toronto Community, with Emphasis on the Psychological-Emotional, Social-Economic Satisfactions and Dissatisfactions in Canada," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1965.
Native American/Aboriginal Communities
BOBIWASH, A. R. The Toronto Urban Native Self-Government Handbook (Toronto: Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, 199?).
FRANSEN, Jack J. "Employment Experiences and Economic Position of a Selected Group of Indians in Metropolitan Toronto," M.S.W. thesis, University of Toronto, 1964.
LIPMAN, Marvin and BRANT, Clare. Urban Native Housing, Research and Working Paper No. 19 (Winnipeg: Institue of Urban Studies, University of Winnipeg, 1986.
MAIDMAN, Frank. Native People in Urban Settings: Problems, Needs, Services (Toronto: Ontario Task Force on Native People in the Urban Setting, 1981).
McCASKILL, Donald Neil. "The Urbanization of Canadian Indians in Winnipeg, Toronto, Edmonton, and Vancouver: A Comparative Analysis," Ph.D. thesis, York University, 1979.
McKAY, Sandy et al. The Attitudes of Toronto Students towards the Canadian Indians (Toronto: The Indian-Eskimo Association of Toronto, 1971).
NAGLER, Mark. "Urban Indian Migrants in Toronto," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1965.
________. Indians in the City: A Study of the Urbanization of Indians in Toronto (Ottawa: Canadian Research Centre for Anthropology, St. Paul's University, 1970).
STIEGELBAUER, Suzanne Marie. "The Road Back to the Future: Tradition and the Involvement of Elders at the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto (Canada)," Ph.D. thesis, University of Texas at Austin, 1990.
Other Western European Communities
GANZEVOORT, Herman. A Bittersweet Land: The Dutch Experience in Canada, 1890-1980 [Some Toronto references] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart in association with the Multiculturalism Program, Department of the Secretary of State and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services, Canada, 1988).
GANZEVOORT, Herman and BOEKELMAN, Mark. Dutch Immigration to North America (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1983).
LINDSTROM-BEST, Varpu. The Finnish Immigrant Community of Toronto, 1887-1913 (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1979).
ANDERSON, Grace M. "The Channel Facilitators Model of Migration: A Model Tested Using Portuguese Blue-Collar Immigrants in Metropolitan Toronto," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1971.
________. Channels of Employment: The Portuguese in Toronto (Waterloo: 1971).
________. Networks of Contact: The Portuguese and Toronto (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University, 1974).
CITY OF TORONTO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. The Portuguese Canadian Community in Toronto, Ethnocultural and Health Profiles of Communities in Toronto, No. 7 (Toronto: City of Toronto Department of Public Health, 1992).
FERNANDEZ, Ronald Louis. The Social Meaning of Being Portuguese Canadian, Occasional Papers in Ethnic and Immigration Studies No. 79-7 (Toronto: Multicultural History Society of Ontario, 1979).
HAMILTON, J.R. Portuguese in Transition (Toronto: Research Department, Board of Education for the City of Toronto, 1970).
MARQUES, Domingos and MEDEIROS, Joao. Portuguese Immigrants - 25 Years in Canada (Toronto: Marques Publishers, 1980).
PORTUGUESE INTER-AGENCY NETWORK. The Portuguese Community of Toronto: Needs and Services (Toronto: Portuguese Inter-Agency Network, 1982).
YOSHIDA, May A. Portuguese Mothers: Their Child Rearing Experiences in an Urban Setting (Toronto: Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, 1981).
Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese Interpreter Services (Toronto: CLV Interpreter Services, 1986).
Directory for Filipino-Canadians in Metro Toronto & Suburbs (Toronto: Kalayaan Media Ltd., 1990).
GREATER TORONTO SOUTHEAST ASIAN REFUGEE TASK FORCE. The Greater Toronto Southeast Asian Refugee Task Force (Toronto: Social Planning Council of Metropolitan Toronto, 1981).
IP, Charlotte. A Differential Evaluation of a Three-Year Emergency Project: The Toronto Interagency Project for Southeast Asian Refugees (Toronto: Toronto Interagency Project for Southeast Asian Refugees, 1983).
KIM, Young Gon. "The Role of Attitudes and Motivation in Learning a Heritage Language: A Study of Korean Language Maintenance," Ed.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1992.
LEE, Irene Chungwha. "An Exploratory Study on the Korean-Canadian Women in Metro Toronto," M.S.W. thesis, University of Windsor, 1985.
O'BRIEN, Patricia. Journey Across Centuries: A Southeast Asian Interpreter Service (Toronto, 1985).
Report of the Greater Toronto Southeast Asian Refugee Task Force (Toronto: Greater Toronto Southeast Asian Refugee Task Force, 1981).
SOUTH EAST ASIAN TASK FORCE. Education Day - Orientation to Community Health Centre Models (Toronto: City of Toronto Department of Public Health, 1985).
The Need for Interpreting and Other Related Services in Serving the Southeast Asian Refugee Clients (Toronto: Report of the Commissioner of Social Services to the Community Services and Housing Committee, Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, 1982).
HOVINEN, Elizabeth J. The Quakers of Yonge Street, Discussion Paper No. 17 (Downsview, Ontario: Department of Geography, York University, 1978).
KAZEMI, M.S. Iranians in Ontario: A New Community in a Land of Opportunity (Toronto: Mihan Publishing Inc., 1986).
McGOWAN, Mark George. "`We Are All Canadians': A Social, Religious and Cultural Portrait of Toronto's English Speaking Roman Catholics, 1890-1920," Ph.D. thesis, University of Toronto, 1988.
ST. ANDREW'S SOCIETY OF TORONTO. One Hundred Years of History 1836-1936 (Toronto: Murray Printing Co., 1936).
SALSEDO, Andre Joseph. "American Migration to Toronto: Influences on the Motivation to Emigrate," Ph.D. thesis, Syracuse University, 1975.
SAWA, George. Musical Acculturation of the Arab-Canadian in Toronto (Ottawa: Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Museum of Man, 1973-4).
TREWHELLA, Ethel Wilson. The Yonge Street Quakers (Aurora, Ontario: J.M. Walton, 1937).
C) Fictional Accounts of the Immigrant Experience
ALIKHAN, Mir Raza. It's Neither Black Nor White, Charlie Brown [First novel about Krish Kalaf, a 54-year-old almost broke inventor who works in Toronto as a carpet salesman] (Toronto: India Book Distributors, 1996).
ALLISON, Rosemary. The Pillow, illustrated by Charles Hilder [About the unhappiness of a young girl recently arrived from Italy] (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1979).
ANDRE, Marion. Maria B. [A Toronto man is asked to help confirm that a Polish woman named Maria helped to save him from the Holocaust] (Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1990).
ATWOOD, Margaret. Alias Grace [About a mid-nineteenth-century Richmond Hill area maid from Ireland who is charged with the murders of her employers] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996) [Booker Prize Finalist - 1996, Giller Prize - 1996, Orange Prize Finalist - 1997, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Finalist - 1998].
BANNERJI, Himani. Coloured Pictures, with illustrations by Sasso [about the Ku Klux Klan in Toronto] (Toronto: Sister Vision Educational Press, 1991).
BENSON, Nella. The Lady's Maid [Set in Manchester and York in the early 19th century] (Toronto: Seal Books, 1982).
BISSOONDATH, Neil. Digging Up the Mountain: Selected Stories [Short stories] (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1985) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1986].
________. A Casual Brutality [A Toronto doctor returns to his native West Indian island] (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1988).
________. On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows [Short stories] (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990).
________. The Innocence of Age [About the clash of generations in a Toronto darkening in the shadows of poverty and racism] (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1992).
BLACK, Ayanna (ed.) Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent [Short fiction, poetry, and testimony] (Toronto: Harper Perennial, 1992).
________. Fiery Spirits: Canadian Writers of African Descent [Short fiction, poetry, and testimony] (Toronto: Harper Collins, 1994).
BOCK, Dennis. Olympia [Seven linked short stories that focus on a young man named Peter, the Toronto-born son of German-born parents] (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1998).
BRAND, Dionne. In Another Place, Not Here [A lesbian first novel set in Toronto and the Caribbean] (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1996) [Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award Finalist - 1997].
BRIDLE, Augustus. Hansen: A Novel of Canadianization [About a young Norwegian who comes to Canada in the 1880s and spends his early manhood years in Toronto] (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1924).
CLARKE, Austin. The Meeting Point [First book in a trilogy about the fortunes of West Indian domestics in Toronto] (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1967).
________. When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks [Short stories] (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1971).
________. Storm of Fortune [Second book in trilogy about the fortunes of West Indian domestics in Toronto] (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1973) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1974].
________. The Bigger Light: A Novel [Final book in trilogy about the fortunes of West Indian domestics in Toronto] (Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1975) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1976].
________. When Women Rule: Stories [Short stories] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985).
________. Nine Men Who Laughed [Short stories] (Markham: Penguin Books Canada Ltd., 1986).
________. In This City [Short stories] (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1992).
________. There Are No Elders [Short stories] (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994).
________. The Origin of Waves [About a sad and aimless middle-aged Canadian of Barbadian origin] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997).
COOPER, Afua. Red Caterpillar on College Street, illustrated by Stephanie Martin [Poetic celebration of both inner-city life and Toronto's Black heritage] (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1989).
CRICHTON, William. I Miss You, Hugs and Kisses [Based on the movie of the same name about a Hungarian-Canadian builder who murders his wife] (Markham: Paperjacks, 1978).
DE VASCONCELOS, Erika. My Darling Dead Ones [First novel about the Portuguese immigrant experience] (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1997).
DODIC, N.J. The Madness of History [First novel about a family of Yugoslavian immigrants in Toronto in the 1960s] (Toronto: Exile Editions, 1994).
D'OYLEY, Enid. The Bridge of Dreams [About an immigrant family trying to settle in Toronto] (Toronto: Williams-Wallace Publishers, Inc., 1984).
DRACHE, Sharon Abron. The Golden Ghetto [Short stories set in Forest Hill] (Victoria, B.C.: Beach Holme Publishers, 1993).
ESPINET, Ramabai. The Princess of Spadina: A Tale of Toronto, illustrated by Veronica Sullivan [A tale of magic involving three five-year olds, all named Claudia, who help foil a robbery attempt in a shop in Kensington Market] (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1992).
EVANOVA, Katarina. Stage Lights [First novel about Romana Petrova, a young Toronto ballerina] (Oakville: Mosaic Press, 1994).
FAESSLER, Shirley. Everything in the Window [Short stories] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1980].
________. A Basket of Apples and Other Stories [Short stories] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1989].
FAGAN, Cary. History Lessons: Stories and Novellas [Short stories focused on Jewish family life] (Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1990).
________. The Animal's Waltz [First novel about a young Jewish woman, her love for the work of an obscure Viennese poet, and her father, the mattress king of Toronto - set in Toronto and Vienna] (Toronto: Lester Publishing, 1994) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1995].
FORAN, Charles. Kitchen Music [First novel about a Toronto-born man and his Vietnamese lover and their search for their past in Ireland] (Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant Press, 1994).
________. The Last House of Ulster [Set in Belfast, but with some references to life in Willowdale] (Toronto: Harper Collins, 1994).
FOSTER, Cecil. Sleep On, Beloved [About two generations of the Jamaican female immigrant experience in Toronto] (Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1995).
FRANKE, Wolfgang E. Goldenrod [About two young Torontonians caught in the interplay between ethnicity and the school system] (Toronto: Trans-Canada Press, 1983).
GORRELL, Gena. North Star to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railway [About slaves who escape the American south and end up in Toronto] (Toronto: Stoddart, 1996).
GROVE, Frederick Philip. A Search for America [About a young immigrant of Swedish-Scots extraction who lands in Toronto and later moves on to New York - probably autobiographical] (Ottawa: Graphic Press, 1927).
HEAD, Harold. Canada in Us Now: The First Anthology of Black Poetry and Prose in Canada [Most contributors are Torontonians] (Toronto: NC Press, 1976).
HEFFRON, Dorris. A Nice Fire and Some Moonpennies [About a well-read Iroquois girl who leaves her home in Kingston to visit Toronto's drug-crazed, hippie-era Yorkville area] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971).
HILL, Lawrence. Any Known Blood [About five generations of a black family that settles in the Toronto area] (Toronto: Harper Collins, 1997).
IRELAND, Jan. A Certain Mr. Takahashi [Two sisters encounter a Japanese neighbour] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985) [Seal First Novel Award - 1985].
IRVING, John. A Prayer for Owen Meaney [Set in the Forest Hill area of Toronto and small-town New Hampshire] (Toronto: Random House, 1989).
________. A Son of the Circus [Set in Toronto and Bombay; one of the main characters is a surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children] (Toronto: Knopf Canada, 1994).
JAMES, Janet Craig. My Name Is Louis [About an Indian youth from Northern Ontario who comes to Toronto to study art] (Kapuskasing, Ontario: Penumbra Press, 1988).
JONAS, George. Final Decree [About the divorce experiences of an immigrant carpenter] (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1981).
KEEFER, Janice Kulyk. The Green Library [About a fortyish Toronto woman, raised in Rosedale, who travels to the Ukraine in a search for her roots] (Toronto: HarperCollins, 1996) [Governor-General's Literary Award - 1997].
KERTES, Joseph. Winter Tulips [A young Montreal musician comes to Toronto to study and moves into an apartment above a Greek restaurant] (Toronto: Doubleday, 1988) [Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour - 1989].
________. The Gift [About the friendship of two boys from different cultural backgrounds], illustrated by Peter Perko (Toronto: Groundwood Books, 1995).
________. The Red Corduroy Shirt [About frienship and cultural understanding], illustrated by Peter Perko (Toronto: Stoddart, 1997).
KOGAWA, Joy. Itsuka [About the fight for redress for Japanese Canadians over their internment during World War II] (Toronto: Viking, 1992).
KREISEL, Henry. The Rich Man [About an Austrian Jewish immigrant's return to Vienna from Toronto in the 1930s] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, [1948] 1961).
LEWIS, Wyndham. Self Condemned [About an English couple forced to live in Toronto during World War II - probably autobiographical] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, [1954] 1974).
LINGARD, Joan. Between Two Worlds [About a Latvian refugee family in post-World War II Toronto] (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1992).
LITTLE, Jean. From Anna, pictures by Joan Sundin [About a 9-year-old girl and her family and their move from Frankfurt to Toronto in 1933] (Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1972).
LUMIERE, Cornel. Kalavrita: A Greek Tragedy, A Strange Love [About a Greek boy sent to Toronto early in World War II] (Toronto: Simon & Pierre, 1985).
MacKAY, Claire. The Minerva Program [Combines a story about a black family in Toronto with a computer mystery] (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1984).
MAHARAJ, Rabindranath. Homer in Flight [About a man who flees Trinidad for the promise of Toronto and finds a land less golden than imagined] (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 1997) [Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award Finalist, 1998].
MARAWILLE, Simon. Fool's Gold: The First $1,000,000 [About a British immigrant's success on Bay Street] (Toronto: Pagurian Press, 1974).
McLEAN, Dirk. Steel Drums and Ice Skates [About Hollie, a seven-year old girl from Trinidad and Tobago and her adventures as a newcomer to Toronto] (Toronto: Groundwood Books/Douglas & McIntyre Children's Books, 1996).
McNAUGHTON, Janet. To Dance at the Palais Royale [About Aggie Maxwell, a 17 year-old Scottish girl who comes to Toronto to work as a domestic in the 1920s] (St. John's: Tuckamore, 1996).
MICHAELS, Anne. Fugitive Pieces [First novel about a Holocaust survivor and the son of survivors - set in Toronto and Greece] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996) [Giller Prize Finalist - 1996, Trillium Award - 1997, Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award - 1997, Orange Prize (best novel by a woman - UK award) - 1997, City of Toronto Book Award Winner - 1997, Guardian Fiction Award Winner - 1997].
MIGUNA, Migula. Toes Have Tales [First novel about two African immigrants in Toronto] (Toronto: AV Publications, 1996).
MORITSUGU, Kim. Looks Perfect [First novel about a young woman of half-French, half-Vietnamese ancestry who is adopted at birth by a Rosedale couple] (Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1996) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1997].
MORTON, Colin. Oceans Apart [First novel about a couple who bring Hong Kong orphans back to Canada] (Kingston: Quarry Press, 1995).
ONDAATJE, Michael. In the Skin of a Lion [Set in Toronto in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s with wonderful descriptions of major construction projects such as the Bloor Viaduct and the Art Deco-style R.C. Harris Water Filtration Plant] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987) [Trillium Award - 1987 and City of Toronto Book Award Winner - 1988].
PACI, F.C. Sex and Character [About a young man of Italian background from Sault Ste. Marie who comes to study philosophy at St. Michael's College in 1969] (Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1993).
PHILIP, Marlene Nourbese. Harriet's Daughter [A young black teenager learns to take control of her life] (Toronto: The Women's Press, 1988) [City of Toronto Book Awards Finalist - 1990].
PLAUT, W. Gunther. Hanging Threads [Short stories by the long-time Rabbi of Holy Blossom Temple] (Toronto: Lester and Orpen, 1978).
POLLOCK, Harry. Gabriel: A Novel [Set in Kensington Market in the Depression] (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1976].
PROKICH, Alex. Tunnel Toronto Moscow, with a Foreword by Dr. Tom Lozar, Professor of English at Vanier College, York University [A Cold-War adventure based on the Serbian-born author's own experiences - some good decriptions of life in Toronto rooming-house districts in the 1950s] (Beamsville, Ontario: privately published, 1991).
REPO, Satu. Marco and Michela, photographs by Vincenzo Pietropaolo, Where We Live series [About young Italian immigrants] (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1978).
________. What's a Friend, photographs by Lutz Dille and Edwin Gailits, Where We Live series [Life in a Portuguese neighbourhood] (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1978).
RICCI, Nino. Lives of the Saints [About a young Italian boy, Vittorio Innocente, and his adventures - not set in Toronto, but parts of the rest of the Vittorio Innocente trilogy will be] (Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant Books, 1990) [Governor-General's Award - 1991 and W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Award for First Novels - 1991].
________. In a Glass House [Second part of the Vittorio Innocente trilogy that traces Vittorio's life from his arrival in a ficticious Leamington through his young adulthood] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1993).
________. Where Has She Gone [Final part of the Vittorio Innocente trilogy, set in Toronto and Italy] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997) [Giller Prize Finalist - 1997].
RICHLER, Mordecai. The Incomparable Atuk [Adventures of a young Inuit poet in Toronto] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973 [1963]).
ROBERT, Marika. A Stranger and Afraid [About a young Hungarian refugee and her exploits in Paris and Toronto] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964).
SADIQ, Nazneen. Ice Bangles [A young woman leaves her native Pakistan to join her husband in Toronto] (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1988).
________. Camels Can Make You Homesick [Short stories about South Asian immigrant children in Toronto] (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1985).
SALUTIN, Rick. A Man of Little Faith [A Jewish man searches for faith in Toronto and elsewhere] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1989 and W.H. Smith/Books in Canada Award for First Novels - 1989].
SANGWINE, Jean. A Turtle Called Friendly [About the life of Ming, an 8-year-old Chinese immigrant, in the suburbs] (Toronto: Rubicon, 1997).
SHEARD, Sarah. Almost Japanese [About a teenage girl in Rosedale who becomes obsessed with all things Japanese after a Japanese symphony conductor moves into the neighbourhood] (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1985).
SHEIKH, Nazneen. Chopin People [About the immigrant experience in Toronto] ([Toronto]: Lugus, 1994).
SILEIKA, Antanas. Buying on Time [A collection of linked stories about a family of Lithuainian displaced persons, set in Weston in the 1950s and 1960s] (Erin, Ontario: Porcupine's Quill, 1997) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1998].
SIMPSON, Jonathan. No Virgin Mary [About an Indian woman who loses her soul and her son because of meddling white males - set in northern Ontario and Toronto] (Toronto: Saanes, 1973).
SINGER, Yvonne. Little-Miss-Yes-Miss [About a young Jamaican girl who joins her parents in Toronto] (Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1977).
SINGH BALDWIN, Shauna. English Lessons & Other Stories [Short stories] (Fredericton: Goose Lane, 1996).
SKVORECKY, Josef. The Engineer of Human Souls: An Entertainment on the Old Themes of Life, Women, Fate, Dreams, The Working Class, Secret Agents, Love and Death (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1984) [Governor General's Award - 1984 and City of Toronto Book Award Winner - 1985].
TORGOV, Morley. The Abramsky Variations [About the dreams and heroes of three generations of the Abramsky family, the first of whom arrives in Toronto in May of 1927] (Toronto: Lester and Orpen Ltd., 1977).
________. St. Farb's Day [About the trials and tribulations of a downtown Toronto lawyer on a fateful Friday] (Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990) [Fiction Award, Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto - 1992 and City of Toronto Book Awards Finalist - 1991].
TOTTEN, Teresa. The Onlyhouse [About a young Croatian girl in mid-1960s Toronto] (Red Deer: Red Deer College Press, 1995).
TYPE, David. Just Us Indians [Stage Play - about memories of growing up in Cabbagetown] (Toronto: Playwrights Canada, 1984).
VASSANJI, M.G. No New Land [About the life of Africans of East Asian origin in high-rise Toronto, probably Flemingdon Park] (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991).
VIZINCZEY, Stephen. In Praise of Older Women: The Amorous Recollections of Andràs Vajda [The title says it all - categorized by the author as "realistic erotica"] (London: Barrie & Rockliff, 1965).
WALLACE, Ian and WOOD, Angela. The Sandwich [About an immigrant grade-two child in Toronto] (Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1975) [City of Toronto Book Award Finalist - 1976].
WEINZWEIG, Helen. Passing Ceremony [A wedding reception becomes a gothic dream] (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1973).
________. Basic Black with Pearls [A middle-aged Jewish woman searches for her lover and her past on the streets of Toronto] (Toronto: House of Anansi, 1980) [City of Toronto Book Award Winner - 1981].
________. A View from the Roof [Short stories] (Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1989).
YEROU, Aristides; HOSKINS, Cathleen; and DICKSON, Barry. The Friendship Solution [and] My Father's Ghost, illustrations by Barbara Di Lella [About Greek-Canadian children in Toronto] (Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 1984).
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