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This interview is included as a supplement. a description is not available due to poor sound quality, difficulty interpreting the regional dialect, or the subject matter.

Adriana Bertulli was born in 1899 in Italy. In this interview, she discusses her life with her husband in Sudbury, Ontario, spending some time reflecting on how she and her husband made ends meet. Mrs. Bertulli briefly discusses her life in Italy, recalling that she had never met her father who died young while working in Canada. Her mother later remarried, and Mrs. Bertulli was the eldest of five children. In 1920, Mrs. Bertulli's uncle sponsored her to come to Canada in order to leave the…

In this interview, Maria Tonini describes her experiences in Italy before she emigrated, her eighteen-year separation from her husband, and her adjustment to life in Canada. The interview focuses on her impoverished childhood, her marriage and family life, and her activities in Copper Cliff, Ontario. Mrs. Tonini was born in 1905 in a small farming village in Italy, and had little formal education. She describes her family's hardships, and recalls both World Wars quite vividly. She married…

This interview is included as a supplement, a description is not available due to poor sound quality, difficulty interpreting the regional dialect, or the subject matter.

In this interview, Angelina Baccega describes her childhood in Italy, as well as her life as a wife and mother of five children in Sudbury, Ontario. Mrs. Baccega was the daughter of labourers, with her father employed as a woodman and her mother employed in the countryside and at home. She describes the difficulty that distance imposed on continuing with her education past the age of 12. As a result, she left school and began to help support her family by obtaining employment in a factory.…

This interview is included as a supplement, a description is not available due to poor sound quality, difficulty interpreting the regional dialect, or the subject matter.

This interview is included as a supplement, a description is not available due to poor sound quality, difficulty interpreting the regional dialect, or the subject matter.

Genoveffa Rosini est ne Torino, en Italie. Elle a immigr au Canada avec ses enfants en 1951, elle est venue rejoindre son mari qui travaillait dans les mines INCO Sudbury, en Ontario. Dans cette entrevue, elle dcrit son enfance et sa vie dpouse en Italie mais aussi Sudbury. Mme Rosini vient dune famille de sept enfants. Elle voque son enfance, sa famille qui travaillait la terre et narrivait pas nourrir tous les enfants, la mort de sa mre qui tait un choc terrible pour sa famille, elle avait…

This interview is included as a supplement, a description is not available due to poor sound quality, difficulty interpreting the regional dialect, or the subject matter.

This interview is included as a supplement, a description is not available due to poor sound quality, difficulty interpreting the regional dialect, or the subject matter.

Anita Comisso was born in 1906 in Udine, Italy, the eldest of four children in her family. In this interview, she describes her childhood in Italy, her migration to Canada at the age of nineteen, and her subsequent relocations within Canada and Italy, due to her husband's work. Mrs. Comisso describes her life in Italy as the daughter of a lumberyard worker. She recalls the First World War being particularly difficult, describing her family's meagre living conditions as well as her mother's…

In this interview, Giuseppe and Antonietta Tanel describe their reasons for immigration, their early experiences in Canada and the Italian community in Toronto, Ontario. They emphasize that they are happy with their decision to come to Canada, as it has given their children opportunities that they believe they would not have had in Italy. Mr. Tanel was a farmer in Italy who migrated to Germany in 1939 for work. He worked in Germany throughout the Second World War, and returned to Italy after…

Mrs. Anita Carniato was born into a large family of fourteen children in 1892 in Treviso, northern Italy. In this interview she discusses her childhood in Italy, how her family earned a living in Canada, as well as her twenty-five years of volunteer work with the Italian Benevolent Society. As a child, Mrs. Carniato lived in the countryside with her family, who were farmers. She attended school until grade four, after which she was unable to continue because of the school's distance from her…

Maria Carniato was born in 1890 in a small town on the outskirts of Treviso, Italy in the Province of Venice. In this interview, she focuses on how she and her husband earned a living in Canada operating a store and taking in boarders. Mrs. Carniato begins the interview by discussing her early life in Italy. She was the eldest of thirteen children. She attended school for three years until the age of nine, and then began working fifteen-hour days, assisting a woman to wash clothes for her…

This interviewee reminisces about his youth in Italy, serving in the Italian army in World War One, and migrating to Canada alone, and then bringing over his wife and child. He focuses on his experiences during the war, and his employment in Canada. The interviewee was born in 1899. He joined the army in 1917 at the age of eighteen. He describes his memorable experiences during the war, including being treated for malaria at the San Marino Republic hospital, and being taken prisoner by…