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…
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 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.
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…