Category: Non-Fiction

By: Harry Vjekoslav Herman, Ph.D.

© 2007                       

Tpb: 141 pages

Price:  $15 CAD          USD $11

Herman’s documentation of the surprisingly high concentration of Macedonian immigrants in Toronto’s restaurant industry appears at first to be a striking case in point.  However, this micro-level study indicates instead that ethnicity does not have to be restrictive but can in fact be manipulated to secure both economic and social gains.  The significance of Men in White Aprons lies not only its revelations about ethnicity but also in the intimacy of its portrait of Toronto’s Macedonian community.  Herman has also included a brief history of the Macedonian people, a survey of the social and economic conditions in Canada at the time of their arrival, a description of family ties and responsibilities and a discussion of how the Macedonians adjusted to their new environment.  The book is a valuable contribution to Macedonian ethno-history.

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By: Lillian Petroff

© reprint 2012        Tpb: 154 pages

Price: $25.00 CAD             USD  $18

In a period when validity of multiculturalism in current Canadian society has come under increasingly critical scrutiny, the study of the ethnic communities that contribute to the “Canadian mosaic” are still of great interest and value.

Whatever one thinks of multiculturalism as part of the future national agenda, the study of how those communities originated and evolved is one of the most important of all Canadian historical inquiries.  Filtered through the mind of a good historian, ethnic studies can tell us as much or more than any other investigation about the interplay of culture and context in Canada’s past.  In this excellent book on the “interior history of the Macedonians in Toronto”, Lillian Petroff made an outstanding contribution to this field by carefully examining complexities and nuances in this community’s evolution from about 1900 to 1940.

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