Brock students Daniella Pace (centre) and Elizabeth Colantoni (right), pictured with Joseph Rossi from University College, University of Toronto, were among the ITAL 2P98 students who recently received the Lieutenant Governor's 2020 Ontario Heritage Award for Youth Achievement and Young Leaders Award for their contributions to the Archival Research of Italian-Canadian Immigration and Culture Project (ARICIC).
A group of Brock University students is being provincially recognized for the work they've done to preserve the personal stories of Italian immigrants online.
Students in ITAL/CANA 2P98: Italians in Canada and Italy-Canada Relations recently received the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario Heritage Award for Youth Achievement and Young Leaders Award for their contributions to the Archival Research of Italian-Canadian Immigration and Culture Project (ARICIC).
"Their projects are important to the Italian-Canadian community, particularly after documents were destroyed at Italian cultural centres during the internment years," says instructor Teresa Russo. "Their research recovers some of the loss narratives during that period and documents new ones from other periods of Italian immigration to Canada."
The course saw Brock students working with peers from the University of Toronto to research, interview and document immigration stories from Italian communities in Toronto and Niagara, which were then added to the archive.
