Pasquale and Domenica Alimonti

Pasquale left Italy in 1905 spending some years in Ohio with his wife’s family before making his way to Spokane, crossing the border in 1910 and arriving in Kelowna in 1912.  He established a vegetable farm in Rutland where he was joined by his son Joseph and his two friends Pasquale Barrera and Louis Constantini, both of who soon married into his family.  In 1921 he brought over his wife, Domenica Fulvimari, and their two daughters Francesca and Lucia.  Domenica passed away in 1923 and Pasquale in 1951.