Aurora Importing: 70 years bringing Italy home
- October, 2025
By Sean Delaney
When Nunzio Tumino landed in Toronto from Sicily in the early 1950s, he and his wife Maria started small, running a modest grocery store in the city’s west end, working hard and even squeezing in English classes at night. Their big break came when a shipment of 400 bags of chestn...
Aurora Importing celebrates 70 years of tradition and taste
- August, 2025
By Sean Delaney
A young entrepreneur named Nunzio Tumino launched a small importing company on St. Clair Avenue in Toronto 70 years ago with one goal in mind: to bring authentic Italian flavours to families building new lives in Canada. That company, Aurora Importing & Distributing Ltd., has si...
