Nicholas Karlis

Nicholas Karlis: I dont do no job, no nothing, he says in a gravelly voice. So I decide to come here, according to The Star. Downstairs, Nicholass son George proudly points to a plaque framing his fathers ticket on the Argentine. Next to the ticket, a handsome young man in a cotton shirt smiles out from a black-and-white Greek passport and When Nicholas Karlis boarded the ocean liner Argentine in Athens in 1951, the 17-year-old travelled light, with nothing but the clothes on his back, a blanket and an icon of St. George from his mother Georgina. Karlises quiet suburban home in Ottawa is filled with evidence of the familys immigrant past. In the foyer, framed letters from prime ministers and a Gov. Gen. congratulate Nicholas on 50 years in Canada and 55 years of marriage to Ionna. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.