For reasons I have not yet fully understood, many immigrants destined for the USA
would go to Canada first, and then cross the border from Canada.
On his return to America after Michael was born, our Giuseppe chose this route.
I do know that Canada had set up "recruiting" offices in Hamburg to encourage emmigration to Canada. I do know that the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway had built track from Montreal to Portland, Maine, because Portland had an ice-free port. The first two excerpts below are from an immigration record from April, 1913. All border crossing records were collected at St Albans, but Tony actually crossed at St Albans, VT. He is on line 23, and I have no doubt of his identity.
The following excerpt simply confirms his passage on the Hannover, arriving from Hamburg at Portland April 19th,
and that he is destined for Montreal.
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