Generations of dreams.
Arianna and Kyle are the third and fourth chapters of a Toronto family that began in Italy. Antonio played Serie A football before the war. Pietro was in East Africa in the 1930s. Both families arrived in Toronto in the 1950s, tried briefly to return — and chose Canada for good. The practice today is built on their hopes and dreams.
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1930s
Pietro Mezzadri
Arianna’s maternal grandfather — born in Venice, trained as a truck mechanic and photographer. Ethiopia.
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1960s
Antonio Codeluppi (centre)
1960s. Arianna’s father. Formerly of Bari Serie A and Bolzano FC, after the war — now coaching for the Italian Canadian Soccer Club in his new city.
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1956
The Codeluppi family arrives in Toronto.
Antonio, Luciana, and their daughter — born in Bolzano — emigrate from Italy. They rent first on St. Clair West, then buy on Blackthorn Avenue in York. The cheapest house in the neighbourhood.
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1961
Arianna is born in Toronto.
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1964
The family tries to return to Italy.
Ten months in Verona, they come back to Toronto. Italy was no longer home; this was. The houses they bought after that point weren’t investments. They were proof of what they’d built.
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1971
Luciana & Arianna
Toronto City Hall, c. 1971. Arianna and her mother in front of the new Henry Moore archway.
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1960s — 70s
The first proof.
A Toronto SOLD sign — Peters & Wiles, when phone numbers still began with letter exchanges. One of the first homes the family bought here.
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1980s
Luciana’s kitchen.
Emilia-Romagna and Veneto cooking, made by hand in Toronto. The pasta machine still in the family.
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1960s — 80s
A Toronto winter.
By now, this was home.
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1990s[ photo of Kyle, 1990s — coming soon ]
Growing roots.
Oakville. Outside the house where Kyle grew up — the next generation, already in the city the family had chosen twice.
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Early 2000s
Arianna enters real estate.
After two decades in advertising and media — CHIN Radio, Canadian Tire, freelance creative work — she brings a creative discipline to the business that hadn’t yet been applied there.
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2018
Kyle joins the practice.
After his first open house, Kyle picks up a buyer and walks them through their first transaction. Arianna sees in her son something she rarely sees in new agents: the patience to listen first.
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Today
Arianna and Kyle, working alongside each other — carrying forward the same idea that started in 1956. The houses you buy are proof of what you’ve built.
