Vienna Calderone was born on June 1, 1903 in Boston, Massachusetts to Italian immigrants, Vincenzo and Maria Calderone, from Villa Santa Lucia. Vienna was one of three girls and three boys in the family. Maria and the children came to Prince Rupert in 1910 to join Vincenzo, who had arrived two years earlier to work at clearing the townsite. Vienna attended school in Prince Rupert, graduating from King Edward High School before working as a stenographer for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and later the Canadian National Railway. Vienna's name appears on the charter for the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees in 1920. In the 1920s, the Calderones lived in the copper-smelting town, Anyox, where Mr. Calderone worked as a miner. Vienna married Italian immigrant Gaetano "Jim" Ciccone in Anyox at her parents' home on January 10, 1924. Jimmy had arrived in Prince Rupert in 1909 as a construction worker for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, working on the line near North Pacific Cannery. He was on location when the last spike was driven on April 7, l914. Coincidentally, Jimmy was also born in Villa Santa Lucia. At one time he had met Vienna's grandfather who had told him about his new grand daughter in the United States. After the railway, Jimmy worked at the dry dock, managed hotels, worked in pulp mills, and fisheries. Between 1926 and 1930 the Ciccones lived in Port Clements where Jimmy was part owner of a hotel. While in Port Clements, Vienna wrote a weekly column for the Prince Rupert Daily News about activities on the Queen Charlotte Islands. The couple raised three sons, Vernon, Ed, and Ron; their daughter Norma died in infancy. During the Second World war, Vienna went back to work in the office of the CNR and continued working in the transportation industry for Northland Navigation until the mid 1960s when she went to work for the Prince Rupert Tourist Bureau until 1970. Jimmy passed away on March 19, 1992 at age 97, and Vienna passed away on August 20, 2000 also at age 97.