"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> Diabolik wrote:
>
> >
> > > > > I consider myself to be lucky to have been born on this side of
the
> > > > > Atlantic. My ancestors left Europe for the US in the early 1600s,
and
> > > > > when the revolution came along they packed up and moved to Canada.
> > > > > They worked hard to build the type of modern society that people
> > > > > come over to be part of, not to get away from.
> > > >
> > > > Guess what racist, Italians gave an ENORMOUS contribution to that.
> > >
> > > After fighting with us, then against us, and then with us, they
decided
> > > after WW II that they should come over and live with us. The society
had
> > > been created before they came.
> >
> > Millions came before ww2. Do you know your history?
>
> I was talking about Canada. There were relatively few Italian immigrants
to
> Canada. In fact, during the 30's and 40's they were not even allowed in.
It was
> not until the 50s that Canada started allowing Italian immigrants again.


"The two largest waves of Italian immigrants to Canada occurred between 1900
and WWI and from 1950-1970."
http://www.whitepinepictures.com/see.../history1.html