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Emigration from Friuli Venezia Giulia to Canada
The new France. Canada, an old French colony: emigration between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Javier Grossutti
In 1873 Gustave Bossange, an official of the Canadian government and an agent of the Allan Shipping Lines, published in Paris a propaganda pamphlet in Italian entitled: La nuova Francia. Il Canada, antica colonia francese. Appello alle classi operaie (The new France. Canada, an old French colony. An appeal to the working classes). Bossange described Canada as an enormous region of mostly French language and society, where Italians would find all they could hope to find in France without having to face the competition of French workers. The affinity of language and culture was greatly highlighted, in the hope that this ethnic closeness would reassure potential Italian emigrants. The better guarantees that Canada could offer as opposed to Latin America, and the comparatively shorter duration of the sea crossing (between 10 and 12 days instead of the 25 or even 30 days needed to reach Brazil and Argentina) could also represent determining factors in the choice of migratory destination.
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