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Ralph Pugliese Passport

Colour scanned image of inside of Ralph Pugliese Canadian passport, dated May 30 1930. Text description of Ralph Pugliese and his wife and two children. Two photos are at right side of passport, one of Ralph and daughter, the other of his wife and their son.

Title: Passport of Ralph Pugliese, 1930

Source: Pugliese Family

Museum of Northern History Collection

Inside of passport for Ralph Pugliese. Information about he and his wife Assunta, and their two children Angelina and Gaetano and their photos are included with the passport.

Colour scanned image of inside of Ralph Pugliese Canadian passport. Two black and white photographs are taped to the pages. The photo on the left is Ralph’s wife wearing a matching shirt and skirt with a hat. She is holding their young son dressed in white clothing. The photo on the right is of Ralph in a dark suit standing behind their daughter. She is wearing a dark coat and a light coloured hat.

Close-up of Ralph Pugliese’s Family photos in passport

Beneath the photos Ralph wrote in pen, asking that the photos be returned to him after the passport was voided, “as they are a treasure to me”.

Scanned image of inside of Ralph Pugliese Canadian passport, dated May 30 1930.

Inside cover of Ralph Pugliese passport

The passport includes information about the family, a description of both husband and wife, and their photos with their children.

Scan of Ralph Pugliese [Puglese] Certificate of Naturalization as a British subject within Canada, October 9 1911.

Ralph Pugliese’s Certificate of Naturalization as a Canadian citizen, 1911

Ralph immigrated to Canada from Italy. He was a farmer in Alberta before moving to Northeastern Ontario. He spent some time in Kirkland Lake as a miner before moving to Kearns Ontario to open a grocery store.