In this article, I examine the formation of the first Latin Quarter in London (ON) at the end of the nineteenth century, and thus at the dawn of modernity. I analyse how these first (mostly Southern) Italian immigrants attempted to soothe their need for a sense of belonging, how they negotiated their collective nostos and, concomitantly, how they dealt with the palpable nostalgia for a return to their Mediterranean homeland.

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• Cauchi-Santoro, R., (2025), "Nostos and Nineteenth-Century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the Earliest Latin Quarters", HSSCommons: (DOI: )

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1. Italian Canadiana
2. Latin Quarters
3. London (ON)
4. Mediterranean
5. Nineteenth century
6. nostos

Original publication: Cauchi-Santoro, Roberta. "Nostos and Nineteenth-Century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the Earliest Latin Quarters." Italian Canadiana 35: 2021. 71-77. DOI: 10.33137/ic.v35i0.37218. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Italian Canadiana. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Italian Canadiana under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.