roypiovesana@tbaytel.net

Roy Piovesana is the Director, Archives of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Thunder Bay.  He is a past-president of the Thunder Bay Historical Society (1979-1982) and the Thunder Bay Art Gallery (1979-1982) and served as a trustee with the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa from 1996 to 2007.  He graduated in history from Lakehead University (H.B.A., 1965; M.A. 1970) and was a teacher of history at Westgate C & V.I. and Hammerskjold High School from 1965 to 1998.  He has written widely on themes relating to nothwestern Ontario and is the author, most recently, of The Italians of Fort William's East End, 1907-1969 published in 2011 by the Institute of Italian Studies -Lakehead University.