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.