An Azorean in Canada: A Memoir is a non-fiction book that traces the adventures and misadventures of Roberto from the moment he was born in 1952, in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, to the moment that he emigrates from his native island, in December of 1969, and sets foot in Toronto, to the present day. The book deals with a variety of universal themes such as infancy, adolescence, adulthood, immigration, discrimination, resilience, adaptation and survival in a new country. It is about 350 pages long; it is divided into three parts which are subdivided into chapters each one with its own title. The third part is followed by an epilogue summarizing the highlights of Roberto's life and times and an acknowledgments section. The book also includes an insert containing authentic photos with their respective captions. An Azorean in Canada: A Memoir contains factual socio-economic and cultural information about life in the Azores in the 1950s and '60s and the general conditions that led to widespread emigration to the US, Canada, France and elsewhere, in the XX century. However, the bulk of the story pertains to daily life in Canada where Roberto has lived, studied, worked and raised a family for the last fifty-three years. From specific references to common individuals, to important political personalities and to historical and cultural events stretching from the early 1970s to the present, Roberto alludes to and comments on many of them. So, in this regard, the book is about the work in progress that Canada remains to this day. In particular, An Azorean in Canada: A Memoir will be of interest to people with a Portuguese background, especially those who were born in the Azores but who are living nowadays in Canada, the US, France, and throughout the diaspora. Furthermore, it will merit the attention of past, present and future teachers given that the author traces in detail his particular career path as a high school teacher of French, Portuguese and Spanish and, eventually, head of the Moderns Department at Harbord Collegiate Institute and Malvern Collegiate Institute and, afterwards, as a PhD student, candidate and course instructor in the Department of French in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto. Finally, the author also highlights his long involvement with an amateur theatre group at the University of Toronto, La Troupe des Anciens, and his association with the Canadian Education Exchange Foundation (CEEF), two organizations that brought him much satisfaction and pleasure aside from his own professional work as a high school teacher of French and Modern Languages

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