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Mrs. Norma (Piper) Pocaterra

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• George Pocaterra b.1882 in Rocette (sp?), Italy - a new town in which he was the first boy to be born
   

• came from aristocratic background
   

• father was a high executive in the textile industry in Ferrari, Italy
   

• George wanted adventure in new land; at 20 years of age in 1903, arrived in Winnipeg
   

• describes early life of George in Italy (very anecdotal); school in Berne, then Bradford, England to learn about wool for future at family-owned Manuficci-Rossi (sp?) Mills.
   

• when George was on a train going back to Italy from his studies, he chanced to meet a Canadian clergyman & was able to help him with a language difficulty
   

• George had already been enamored of Canada in his readings about it & now he had a contact & acquaintance there
   

• in 1903 he went to visit Rev. Robert E. Spence in Glenborough, Manitoba (near Winnipeg) who got him a job on a large farm owned by the Steel brothers, Scotsmen.
   

• but "where was the romance?", so George went off to the "Real West" - the Rocky Mountains, where he had the "real" life working on the Bar D Ranch in the High River area of Alberta (very entertaining retelling)
   

• repeat of "Arizona Frank" tale that Giorgio mentioned in his speech
   

• friendship with Walter Baker
   

• went on horseback riding holiday to "virgin" land at the confluence of Highwood River, and Black & Sullivan creeks.  Thought it was paradise and wanted to settle there.
   

• poker story
   

• sent for cousin from Italy to join him

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