TORONTO – My maternal grandfather, Leonardo Liscio, settled permanently in the Annex quarter of Toronto, in the early 1900s. He had travelled back and forth across the Atlantic in the late 1800s before making his residency permanent and his citizenship Canadian [British Subject]. Readers will, hopefully, forgive my self-indulgence when I praise his resiliency and commitment to this country. It was not always a bed of roses, as the saying goes. Count your blessings and push ahead, he would say 0when i tried to commiserate with him in moments of sorrowful reflection…
