Comments on: Italian Heritage Month – meet the East End’s Angelo Branca

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:34:39 +0000

My grandfathers brother was murdered by Domenic Nassa . Domenic wanted to marry his victims daughter . He was told that if he went off and earned some money , that he would give Domenic his approval in marrying his daughter . When Domenic came back home , his girlfriend had met someone else. Domenic went wild and tried to shoot his girlfriend , her father stood in front of her and took the bullet. Angelo lost this case, and Domenic Nassa went on to receive the death penalty .

By: scoley

scoley — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:17:01 +0000

In reply to Bob.

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By: Mhenowah

Mhenowah — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 20:46:12 +0000

In reply to Aaron Chapman. Branca also won the criminal case regarding the Filippone's being charged with living off the avails of prostitution, & of course how that impacted some of the young people in the family system- I sure have enough stories that will Be in my own book.

By: Donald D. Higgins

Donald D. Higgins — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 19:00:37 +0000

I say put Angelo Branca on a postage stamp. As for the lawyers in N. B. – the IRIVINGS plantation – there is not one who can survive as a practicing barristers — nope, 99.0% of them work 1 of 3 worse judicial systems in Kanada, nothing more than a chameleon democracy. As for
“me,” I expect to have a wrongful murder conviction overturned pursuant to the heavily action of UBC Innocence Project, Peter A. Allard School of Law. Besides the one-of-a kind Branca – in my English meaning “brain” – a suggested read is Clarence Darrow’s “Attorney for the Damned.”

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 22:10:06 +0000

My half uncle was Angelo’s 1st son, Lloyd who was put up for adoption. My Grandfather Married Angelo’s pregnant girlfriend and wound up boxing and involved with Angelo in boxing back in the day.

By: Lucille Talbot

Lucille Talbot — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 01:17:00 +0000

My mother and her 5 siblings were good friends with the Branca family, who also lived on Prior St. My mother told us stories about Judge Branca, she was very proud that he was a judge and Italian.

By: Alli Cannon

Alli Cannon — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:35:39 +0000

Very interesting story!

By: Tyler Flood

Tyler Flood — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:47:12 +0000

I more and more see that professionals like lawyers and scientists who work really hard on their problems are engaged powerfully in their hobbies, usually sports (like boxing here)

By: Aaron Chapman

Aaron Chapman — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 11:29:54 +0000

And he got Mickey Filippone off a charge of passing a counterfeit $50 bill he paid for Theatre Under the Stars tickets!

By: Canadian History Roundup – Week of June 11, 2017 | Unwritten Histories

Canadian History Roundup – Week of June 11, 2017 | Unwritten Histories — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 17:03:14 +0000

[…] Eve Lazarus profiles Angelo Branca for Italian Heritage Month. Branca was a middleweight boxer who also happened to be a criminal defence attorney in Vancouver from the late 1920s to the early 1960s. But you might know him best as a former Supreme Court judge. […]