Interviews with Domingos Marques & Gilberto Prioste
Comunidade editor and director Domingos Marques talks about about his experience studying in a seminary in Portugal during the Second Vatican Council, immigrating to Canada, and his first job. April 16, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade editor and director Domingos Marques talks about his education in a Portuguese seminary and the advantages of having formal education in a largely illiterate community. April 16, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade editor and director Domingos Marques talks about the importance of church groups for the Portuguese youth in the 1960s and his experience volunteering in the community. April 16, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade editor and director Domingos Marques talks about his political education in Portugal during the dictatorship, the influence of the Vatican II when he studied for priesthood, and the impact of the Carnations Revolution on immigrants in Canada. April 16, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade editor and director Domingos Marques talks about the Portuguese-Canadian press in the 1960s-70s, his first newspaper job on Fr. Alberto Cunha’s O Jornal Português, and his subsequent involvement with João Medeiros and the West End YMCA. April 16, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade editor and director Domingos Marques talks about the creation of the newspaper and its association with the West End YMCA, and its political context as a progressive outlet in a largely conservative community. April 16, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade editor and director Domingos Marques on the challenges of publishing a community newspaper in the 1970s. April 16, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade editor and director Domingos Marques on the Cold War and Trudeau era in Canada, the RCMP’s surveillance of Comunidade, and the challenges of getting government funding as a left-wing newspaper. April 16, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade illustrator, designer, and photographer Gilberto Prioste on how he became involved with the Movimento Comunitário Português and the Comunidade. March 19, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade illustrator, designer, and photographer Gilberto Prioste on how the newspaper was designed, printed and distributed. March 19, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
Comunidade illustrator, designer, and photographer Gilberto Prioste on the community’s cautious acceptance of their left-wing newspaper. March 19, 2011. Portuguese Canadian History Project.
For more on Domingos Marques see here, here, and here. For more on Gilberto Prioste see here.
The newspaper issues and photographs displayed here were donated by Domingos Marques to the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections (CTASC), York University Libraries, in 2010, with the help of the Portuguese Canadian History Project (PCHP). The CTASC digitized the documents presented here. The findings aids to Marques’ fonds can be found here. See the PCHP’s digital exhibition about the Comunidade newspaper for more content.
