Grocer.
Born at Grimaldi, Italy on 12 April 1925, son of Giuseppe and Gelsomina Albo, at the age of 13 he moved to Eritrea and Sudan with his brother Antonio and father to operate a fruit plantation. They remained in Africa for nine years but were made prisoners of war during the Second World War. After the war, he moved back to Italy before immigrating to Canada in 1949, eventually moving to Winnipeg. With his brother Franco, he was one of the first to open an Italian specialty grocery store called Albo Brothers. In 1978, they opened Sunrise Health Foods, which expanded to four locations in Winnipeg. In 1955, he married Maria and they had three daughters and a son. He died at the St. Boniface Hospital on 15 June 2012 and was buried in the St. Boniface Cemetery.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 14 June 2012.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 November 2024
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