page_title: Italian Canadians in Greater Montreal
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Italian Canadians in Greater Montreal / History
caption_attribution_description: Information added by Wikimedia users. Français&#160;: L'intérieur d'une épicerie possédée par une famille d'origine italienne, les Lembo, sur la rue Dante, dans le quartier de la Petite-Italie à Montreal vers 1910 English: Interior of a grocery store owned by an Italian family (Lembo) on Dante Street in Little Italy, Montreal, c. 1910
context_page_description: Montreal has an Italian Canadian community. As of 2007, 17.6% of the ethnic Italians in Canada live in Montreal.
  Montreal's Italian community is one of the largest in Canada, second only to Toronto. With 279,795 residents of Italian ancestry as of the 2016 census in Greater Montreal, Montreal has many Italian districts, such as La Petite-Italie, Saint-Leonard, Rivière-des-Prairies, and LaSalle. Italian is the third most spoken language in Montreal and in the province of Quebec.
context_section_description: In 1893 there were about 1,400 ethnic Italians in Montreal. According to a 1906 edition of The Labour Gazette, Canada Department of Labour, Italian employment agencies that worked with Canadian steamship and railway companies attracted many Italian labourers to Montreal. Additional growth in the Italian population took place in the 20th century.
  The Order of the Sons of Italy in Montreal dedicated a statue of John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) in 1935. The order suggested that Cabot, and not Jacques Cartier, was in fact the first European to reach Canada.
caption: A grocery store owned by an Italian family in Little Italy, 1910s
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