PAPA-CHARLIE
PAPA JOE'S FATHER,
MY GRANDFATHER
He came to Canada around 1896, several years before
my Grandmother "Nunna-Michella", who arrived in Winnipeg
about 1900. Papa-Charlie was born in Callanisetta, close to
Palermo, Sicily. He landed in New York, then went on on to
Boston, then to St. Paul. He took the CPR Pembina line
to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Previously he had worked in the
sulfur mines in Sicily.  He was always self-employed as a
fruit pedlar from a horse and buggy era.  The Guarino family
lived in a settlement of Italian immigrants on the west side
of Edmonton St. just opposite to where the Winnipeg convention
center is now located. Then for many years they lived in an old
house at 458 Spence Street, which had a stable at the rear.