Yeah, now that I think about it, the Commercial Drive area was historically somewhat of an ethnic enclave, sort of like the Greektown area of Kits, less so nowadays in both cases.David wrote:Much of East Van (Grandview-Woodlands especially) was Italian in those days and Notre Dame is a Catholic school, which explains why about 1/3 of team was Italo-Canadese. Many of those families migrated east to North Burnaby in the 70's and 80s. Although Notre Dame has an Italian presence today, there are many Philippine students.sj roc wrote:Lot of Italian-sounding names on the roster.
Funny how the program lists him as "Louis Passaglia" when his name is actually Luigi (shortened to Lui).
DH
I was scratching my head on the Louis thing, too. Not only that but they actually dropped one of the S's from his surname as well!