When We Came to "America": Understanding the Canadian, Immigrant Experience Through the Eyes of an Italian Boy

Each year thousands of immigrants pour into North America seeking a better life. They are filled with hopes and dreams that wealth and success will be easily and quickly achieved with limited effort and sacrifice. Within a short period of time, those hopes and dreams get severely tested by many challenging realities that immigrants never expected nor imagined.Michael Caputo, author of, THE COIN FROM CALABRIA, shares his family's trying experiences as immigrants that landed in Canada in 1967, so as to show the stages immigrants go through, which go from hope, to often shattered hope, to resurrected hope, and finally success.