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This employee pass for this Italian immigrant labourer and his wife, who lived in Sarnia. He had been employed by the Canadian National Railway prior to 1939.

Homes Foundry placed advertisements in northern Italy in the 1920's to recruit foundry workers. 10 to 15 families arrived and were housed in row housing on Berkley Street, near Holmes Foundry. Neither Holmes Foundry nor Berkley exist any longer. …

An advertisement indicating the promoting and describing "Macaroni" (Pasta). This indicates that as early as 1901 this small store in Sarnia, began to sell Italian products.

In 1958 Frank D'Agostini boarded the ship Saturnia in Naples, sailed to Halifax. There he boarded a train for Toronto where he then continued, on a connecting train, to his final destination, Sarnia, Ont.

This birth certificate is of Vulcania Domenica Maria Di Maria (Mamie Vani), who was born aboard the ship Vulcania. At the time of her birth her mom was en route to Canada.

The Navelli Club of Sarnia was founded in 1977 to honour the patron saint of the town of Navelli in Abbruzzi, Italy. The founders of this club were families who had immigrated to Sarnia from this town.

Assunta Giancarlo's 45 years service certificate given by the St. Peter's Church, Italian Catholic Women's League

This note is a written testimony of the committee members and founding members of the Navelli Club of Sarnia.

St. Peter's Church - Committee members of Navelli Club/Feast of St. Sebastian 1979

The members of Members of St. Francis Cabrini Catholic Women's League of St. Peter's Catholic Church enjoyed social activities together such as friendly game of cards.

Sisters-in-Law sharing a moment while cooking Sunday supper for the family.

Rita Iannozzi (née Caschera) and her husband Cataldo Iannozzi in 1984

The photograph was taken prior to the Sandrin family moving to Sarnia-Lambton. The Sandrin family moved from Kirkland lake to Sarnia around 1938. They established Sandrin Brothers Inc. today called Sandrin Services Inc. This is a machine shop…

From left to right Lucia Astolfi, Antonio Astolfi, Julia Astolfi on an identification card used during war years for border crossing to the United States from Canada. They were among the earliest Italian immigrants to Sarnia. This identification card…

Many Italians in Sarnia from c. 1950's - 1970's had Dr. Carpeneto, who spoke Italian, as a family physician. He was a household name to the community.