Italians first began immigration to Montreal at the beginning of the 20th century. In this 1961 film we are shown community life in the Italian quarter of Montreal. We are told that the men find it hard to get jobs, and the pay is lower than they expected. Soccer is a widely shared passion in the Italian community.

One Sunday in Canada visits an Italian community in the northwest sector of Montreal, where about half of the city's 150,000 Italians live. In the new suburbs where they are settling, the streets may have names like Venice, Naples, Genoa; and wherever men and women gather, there is the ebullience characteristic of the Latin. This is a Sunday on which special observances are held at the Italian church of Madonna della Difesa, and it is also the Sunday when Montreal's Cantalia soccer team challenges Toronto's Italia. A very human story of people adapting to life in a new environment.