On the 11th of January 1923 Vincenzo Sinagra and his brother Basilio, landed in Australia aboard the liner Orsova and so began the story of the Sinagra family in Western Australia.

 

Family tradition has it that Vincenzo left the village of Sinagra in Sicily after a disagreement over land within the family. He had been living with an aunt and had expected to acquire some of the family land. This however went to one of his other cousins and so Vincenzo decided that his future lay elsewhere....