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Title: Building the Italian Cultural Centre - Interview with Anna Terrana:
Contributor(s): Terrana, Anna (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Anna Terrana speaks about her involvement in the construction of the Italian Cultural Centre and being the editor of Il Marco Polo newspaper from 1974-1978.
Extent: 0:03:29
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Italian Cultural Centre (Vancouver, B.C.), Newspapers, Canadian newspapers
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Coming to Canada - Interview with Michael Cuccione:
Contributor(s): Cuccione, Michael (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-15
Language: English
Description: Michael Cuccione's family immigrated to Vancouver when he was a boy of seven. He describes their journey and the experience of settling and starting a life.
Extent: 00:04:47
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Italian Canadians
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Coming to Vancouver - Interview with Carmen D'Onofrio:
Contributor(s): D'Onofrio, Carmen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Language: English
Description: Carmen talks about his family's journey to Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:40
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Italian Canadians, Kalena's Shoes (Vancouver, B.C.), Family-owned business enterprises, Small business
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Commercial Drive is a Walking Street - Veralena Casellato:
Contributor(s): Casellato, Veralena (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Veralena Casellato speaks about Commercial Drive as a neighbourhood and its changing character.
Extent: 0:02:44
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Immigrants - Experience, Italian Canadians
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Community Organizing as a Single Mother - Interview with Anna Terrana:
Contributor(s): Terrana, Anna (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-01
Language: English
Description: Anna Terrana speaks about the impact of being a single mother and community organizer.
Extent: 0:00:28
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Parenting, Italian Cultural Centre (Vancouver, B.C.), Activists
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Story City

Title: Everyone Was a Character - Interview with Carmen D'Onofrio:
Contributor(s): D'Onofrio, Carmen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Language: English
Description: Carmen talks about the character of the people on The Drive when he was growing up.
Extent: 00:01:34
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Small business, Social interaction, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Story City

Title: The Family Businesses - Interview with Pia Tofini-Johnson and James Johnson:
Contributor(s): Tofini-Johnson, Pia (Interviewee), Johnson, James ()
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-20
Language: English
Description: Pia Tofini-Johnson recalls the early days of both the family's businesses - an Italian newspaper and a travel agency.
Extent: 00:04:00
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Small business, Family-owned business enterprises, Newspapers, Travel agencies
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Hanging Out on the Drive - Interview with Konstantin Nikolaou
Contributor(s): Nikolaou, Konstantin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Konstantin Nikolaou speaks about hanging out at Roma's Bar with the Italians during his high school lunch breaks.
Extent: 00:03:39
Subject(s): Teenagers, Restaurants, Family-owned business enterprises, Greek Canadians, Italian Canadians, Britannia Secondary School, High schools, Schools
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Hanging Out on The Drive - Interview with Michael Cuccione:
Contributor(s): Cuccione, Michael (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-15
Language: English
Description: Michael talks about hanging out on The Drive in the 1960s.
Extent: 00:01:35
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Restaurants, Communities, Teenagers
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: I Wanted That House! - Interview with Pia Tofini-Johnson and James Johnson:
Contributor(s): Tofini-Johnson, Pia (Interviewee), Johnson, James (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-20
Language: English
Description: Pia Tofini-Johnson's story of buying her first house in Vancouver's Little Italy shows how different Vancouver was in the 1960s.
Extent: 00:03:35
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Housing, Money, Loans
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: The Italian Cultural Centre - Interview with Michael Cuccione:
Contributor(s): Cuccione, Michael (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-15
Language: English
Description: Michael Cuccione has been involved in the Italian Cultural Centre for most of his adult life. He talks about its past and future.
Extent: 00:01:47
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Italian Cultural Centre (Vancouver, B.C.), Volunteers
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Collection: Story City

Title: The Italian Day Gift - Interview with Marina De Marinis
Contributor(s): De Marinis, Marina (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-10
Language: English
Description: It was a banner day in Vancouver's Little Italy in the summer of 1986 - Italy's big soccer win and the Italian Day festival. Marina De Marinis recalls the longer term impact of this day on her son.
Extent: 00:02:08
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Children of immigrants, Soccer, Festivals, Italian Day (Festival), Festivals
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Story City

Title: Italian Day on The Drive - Interview with Michael Cuccione
Contributor(s): Cuccione, Michael (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-15
Language: English
Description: After a hiatus of many years, community members worked together to revive the Italian Day festival.
Extent: 00:01:15
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Festivals, Festivals, Italian Day (Festival)
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Italian Day on The Drive - Interview with Pia Tofini-Johnson and James Johnson
Contributor(s): Tofini-Johnson, Pia (Interviewee), Johnson, James (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-20
Language: English
Description: Pia Tofini-Johnson and her son James share memories of the Italian Day festival.
Extent: 00:05:00
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Festivals, Italian Day (Festival)
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1980s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Italian Day Parade - Interview with Federico Fuoco
Contributor(s): Fuoco, Federico (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-03
Language: English
Description: Federico Fuoco speaks about his memories of the old Italian Day parade. The times he spent riding on a float with his musician father, the celebrations of 1982 when Italy won the World Cup, and riding in a dump truck.
Extent: 0:01:51
Subject(s): Festivals, Italian Day (Festival), Festivals, World Cup (Soccer), Italian Canadians
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Story City

Title: Journey to Vancouver - Interview with Veralena Casellato
Contributor(s): Casellato, Veralena (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Veralena speaks about her parents' journey to Vancouver and starting a life.
Extent: 0:00:47
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Italian Canadians, Immigrants - Employment, Family-owned business enterprises, Family
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: A Kid at Italian Day - Interview with Carmen D'Onofrio
Contributor(s): D'Onofrio, Carmen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-26
Language: English
Description: Carmen talks about what is was like as a kid during the original Italian Day festival.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Festivals, Italian Day (Festival), Festivals
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Language Non-Barrier - Interview with Veralena Casellato
Contributor(s): Casellato, Veralena (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Veralena's family's experience with learning or not-learning English and how it affected their experience of Commercial Drive and Vancouver.
Extent: 0:02:53
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, English language, Italian Canadians, Children of immigrants - Education, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: A "Little" April Fools Prank - Interview with Pia Tofini-Johnson and James Johnson
Contributor(s): Tofini-Johnson, Pia (Interviewee), Johnson, James (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-20
Language: English
Description: A small prank became a big deal.
Extent: 00:02:25
Subject(s): Practical jokes, Italian Canadians
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: My Second Home - Interview with Linda Massaro
Contributor(s): Massaro, Linda (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-11
Language: English
Description: Linda Massaro chats about her feelings about living in Canada and being a dual citizen of Italy and Canada.
Extent: 00:01:54
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Small business, Italian Day (Festival), Festivals, Immigrants - Experience
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

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