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This document was a police background check that was necessary before emigration to Canada.

This document provides details of multi generational migration experience of the Rocca Family. Of interest is date of birth, of Felix Rocca 1871, who died and was buried in Connecticut, USA in 1949. The son Domenico Rocca immigrated to France,…

It appears from documents that Domenico Rocca departed from Italy emigrated to France, Venezuela, and then in 1957 immigrated to Sarnia, Ontario. This journey to more than one country to find a better life was repeated by numerous Italian…

Before coming to Sarnia from Italy, Domenico Rocca had immigrated to France, Venezuela and finally to Sarnia, Ontario Canada, where he remained for the rest of his life.

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…

A number of Italians who came to Sarnia from Italy, sailed to New York and then travelled by train to Sarnia. This required a confirmation letter, detailing the travel route through New York, for the American Embassy in Rome.

This is Cataldo Iannozzi's original Italian passport he used to emigrate from Italy to Canada.
In the second image we can see in the top right "Canada con eventuale transito S.U.America" meaning, he originally planned to eventually travel to the…

A photograph mailed to Canada in 1963. Pictured are Augusta and Beniomino Iannozzi, parents of Cataldo Iannozzi, and parents-in-law to Rita Iannozzi (née Caschera).
Cataldo emigrated to Canada in 1959 with a promise to come back in a couple years…