Rose Foti, a retired teacher, bought one of the first plaques, along with her siblings, to say thank you to her late mother and father.
CBC NewsThis project will honour Italian immigrants to CanadaA Toronto charity is planning to build a tribute wall to honour the legacy of Italians immigrants who came to Canada to start new lives and whose hard work shaped the communities they lived in.
Her parents left Italy to come to Canada in the early 1950s, after the Second World War. Her mother came first, then her father a year and a half later. "Children, grandchildren, future generations can go and take a look at who these people were. We're talking about years to come. These plaques will be here forever," she added.
"We initiated this project to honour Italian families who've sacrificed quite a lot to come to this country," he said.
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