Growing Up Italian- Life in our Neighbourhood
Growing Up Italian Life in our Neighbourhood I was born and raised in a Northern Ontario city that started its beginnings in the 1880s as a transient camp for workers building the western expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was soon discovered that its land formation was rich in minerals, iron, nickel, copper and ore and overtime it became the hard rock mining company of the world. INCO took over the mines in 1928 and there was a need for workers. The city grew quickly and eagerly welcomed immigrants to work in the mines. Meanwhile Post WW11 Italy was in a state of indescribable ruins, destruction, famish, no work or little hope. In 1953, after serving his obligatory military duties my father and some of his cousins made the voyage by sea to the "land of milk and honey." He was 25 and was sponsored by my Godfather's father who had arrived pre war for work and when he was unable to return home, he began sponsoring many from his home town. My father arrived