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Photograph of Capo family gathering, Toronto, ON, 1957
Black and white photograph of Capo family gathering, Toronto, ON, 1957. The photograph was taken of a Sunday lunch, after the men had spent some time on house renovations, mainly installing a new door.
In the post-war years, from 1950 to 1970, Canada saw its highest numbers of Italian immigrants yet. Numbering about 500,000, these new Italian Canadians surpassed the number of earlier immigrants. As a result, they began to redefine what it meant to be Italian Canadian.
