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Pierre Bernard St. in Tetreauville, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: Autumn 1952 | Notes: Mom & I arrived in July 52 in Halifax.Dad had come first in 1951 & began working at Canada Cement in east end of Montreal, (where his dad had also worked in early years of 1905 & 1925).
The weather was different from the Adriatic Coast, Mom had made me a first hat for early autumn. I was 7 yrs.old. | Contributed by: Maria Teresa Ronca (Toto)
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: 1960 | | Notes: Contributor in striped sweater and brother Vincenzo holding Canadian born sister Rita with parents Antonietta and Giuseppe Biello. | Contributed by: Franco Biello
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: 1956 | | Notes: Here is a picture of an Italian-born older sister and her Canadian-born baby sister. | Contributed by: Madeleine
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: 1957 | | Notes: The contributor and her sister are seen here standing in front of their vegetable garden. | Contributed by: Madeleine
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: 1957 | Notes: The contributor, her sister and cousins can be seen in this photograph. It was taken the day she arrived to Canada from Italy.
| Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada | | Date: 1958 | | Notes: Here is a picture of the contributor with her cousins in Hamilton, Ontario. In the 1950s and early 1960s most recent Italian immigrants spent their free time "paying visits." Their children always accompanied them. In this way families not only kept in touch (Cousins would actually get to know each other!) but they also managed to have fun at a very low cost. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: 1958 | | Notes: The contributor's parents, like other Italians in the neighborhood, allowed their little girls to ride tricycles, but they rarely bought them bicycles (Too dangerous!). | Contributed by: Sue (nee Melfi) Alfieri
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: 1958 | | Notes: Even though the contributor and her cousin can be seen here wearing swimsuits, the fact is that this was the one and only time this contributor ever wore one (belonged to a relative) when she was a child. In the 1950s few Italians living in Canada went swimming or to the pool. Most first-generation Italians had a strong aversion to water as they had been told that one could catch all sorts of diseases (malaria in particular) from frolicking around lakes or rivers. So, of course, Italian children were discouraged from learning how to swim, and doing water sports. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Montreal, Canada | | Date: 1958 | | Notes: All dressed up for a big family gathering. | Contributed by: Sue DiTullio
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | Date: 1958 | | Notes: A year after the contributor's family moved to Canada her family visited their relatives in Toronto -- this might not seem like much to today's young generation used to traveling around the globe, but back then it was considered a pretty big deal. Back then relatives did stay in touch, partly because it was natural and normal to do so (Was fun one might add), but staying in touch, "paying visits" was also done out of a sense of duty. A sacred duty. In the 1950s Italians did more than yap about the importance of family values, they actually did everything in their power to put their families first. Of course, back then, the word, family, included more than mother, father and kids. It included aunts, uncles, cousins, godparents, grandparents etc. Nowadays, one might call it "networking." | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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