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This official document releasing Domenico Rocca from mandatory Italian military service indefinitely. This was required in order to leave Italy for Canada.

This document was required for immigration purposes and for employment.

Documentation required for immigrating to Canada

Domenico Rocca wrote a request for release from the mandatory military duty that Italy applied to all young men. He need this release in order to leave Italy.

This legal document of occupation, from the prefecture of the province of Fronsinone, was necessary to emigrate to Canada.

This legal document of occupation was a necessary part of the paperwork for emigrating to Canada.

Upon arriving in Canada in April of 1957, Domenico Rocca joined the Labourer's Union Local 1089 in Sarnia. He paid his dues monthly. The scanned booklet shows three years of dues recorded with stamps. 1957, 1958 and 1959. Most of the Italian…

This document released Domenico Rocca from Italian military duty in order to work in Canada

This document was needed for immigrating to Canada

Domenico Rocca's 1949 certification letter of trade qualification. Before emigration it was necessary to have the mayor of the town to provide a signed letter to certify the qualifications of person leaving. Since many of these rural Italian…

Dec. 4 1957. Domenico Rocca's third class ticket for ship Augustus from Naples to New York. Many Italians in Sarnia travelled first to New York by ship and then boarded a train from New York to Sarnia.

In 1948 Domenico Rocca immigrated to France from Italy to find employment. His permit was valid for four years and he then renewed it for another three years. In 1957 he immigrated to Canada.

On Dec. 10 1924 Luigi Rocca sent a large money order to his family in Italy. It was made out to Felice Rocca. This was a common practice from Italian immigrants to support their families back in Italy.

Family photo from the early 1900's in Ciociaria, southern Lazio. It depicts a farming family of some means.

The birth certificate was necessary to attain passports for immigration.

Domenico Rocca's father had also emigrated to the US in the early 1900s. Emigration repeated itself with the subsequent generation, was a way that the Rocca family's situation in Italy was ameliorated. Money, earned abroad, was sent back so that…