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Sunday, June 4, 2023
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Dante
Travel Agency Ltd., located on Erie St. E. in the heart of Via
Italia, was originally founded by the late Mrs. Lidia Dal Farra-Costa
in
the early 1960's under the name of Dal
Farra Travel Agency. The agency’s operations were
initially carried out from Lidia’s parental home, (currently
La Bottega), along with other commercial activities conducted by
her parents and brother, Armando.
In 1967, Dal Farra Travel Agency was put up for sale.
Meanwhile, Dante Curcione, a young man from Figline Vegliaturo
(Calabria), employed as a social worker with the Children’s
Aid Society, decided to change profession and seized the
opportunity of purchasing the agency. The offices were relocated
near the corner of Parent Avenue across from the present Credit
Union premises. The agency remained there for six years.
In 1973, construction of the new building at the corner of Erie
and Lillian began and a year later, on June 13, 1974 (the feast
of St. Anthony of Padua), the memorable transfer to the
new location took place.
The name Dal Farra Agency was
kept until 1977, when the agency assumed the new name Dante
Travel Agency Ltd. with the authorization of IATA (International
Air Transport Association).
Numerous Italian immigrants arriving in Windsor at the time used
this agency as a point of reference.
The agency’s operations expanded beyond travel arrangements
to encompass countless office procedures such as filling out applications
for
immigration,
visas,
passports, certificates, income tax and translations, just
to name a few. Later, when Mr. Curcione was awarded the honourary
title of Notary Public, the office transactions intensified.
In 1992, the agency was bought by the young and vibrant Teresa Ferrarelli-Maceroni.
Presently, the agency continues to operate as always under the
same name, Dante Travel Agency, always at the same address, always
with
expert personnel!
The current owner is the well-known Norma Martinello-Graziano. |
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