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Oral histories are recorded interviews that capture people’s lived experiences, memories, and reflections in their own words. In the Italian Canadian community, they are especially valuable because they preserve stories of migration, work, family, and cultural traditions that often went undocumented in official archives.

These narratives reveal how individuals made sense of displacement, belonging, and identity across generations, while also highlighting regional dialects, community networks, and everyday practices. By centring personal voices, oral histories help ensure that Italian-Canadian history is remembered not only through institutions and statistics, but through the human experiences that shaped the community.


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