1954, THE MICAELENSE YEAR
José-Louis Jacome, October 19, 2020
List of the 450 Micaelenses - Part 2
TRIP 2 - Homeland - April 23, 1954
(Emigrants from Vila Franca, Lagoa, Povoaçâo and Nordeste)
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Published in the Diário dos Açores daily, April 26, 1954
Azorean workers at a Canadian National Railways site,1954.
(From left to right) Row 2 : Jaime, Eduardo da Silva, João Luis Moisés and Leonal Mãntua. Row 1 : José Rolino, José Maria Pires and Antonio Correio de Melo (Marie-Hélène Pires).
Jaime Pascoal (right), Norberto Pereira (next to Jaime) and friends in Laprairie, south of Montreal (Norberto Pereira)
Manuel Pascoal on a Canadian National Train (Jacome Family Archives)
Alfredo Borges, Artur Modesto and my father, Manuel da Costa Jacome at the Saint-Michel farm (Jacome Family Archives)
About the author
Born in São Miguel and living in Montreal since 1958, I published a book in 2018 about Azorean immigration to Canada in the 1950s. “De uma ilha para outra” was published in Portuguese and French. The book and an exhibition that accompanies it were presented in Montreal, São Miguel, Toronto and Boston. The book is sold in Montreal, Toronto and São Miguel, and through my Website. I continue to publish information and stories relating to the first big wave of Azorean and Portuguese immigration to Canada in the 1950s through my Website jljacome.com and my Facebook page D’une île à l’autre.
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