Family
Vito Rizzuto was born in Cattolica Eraclea, Sicily, Italy, on February 21, 1946, and was brought to Montreal by his parents in 1954. Vito was the first child of Nicolo "Nick" Rizzuto and his wife, Libertina Manno. Vito was named after Nick's father, who was murdered in Patterson, New York when Nick was only nine. Nick would later be murdered as well, killed by a single sniper's bullet while having dinner with family in November 2010.
On Vito's eighth birthday, in 1954, the Rizzuto family, which by then included a daughter, Maria, arrived in Canada by ship, landing in Halifax and moving on to Montreal, where thousands of Italian immigrants thrived in a long-established community.
Vito married Giovanna Cammalleri, and had three children. His oldest son, Nicolo Rizzuto (Nick, Jr.) – named after his grandfather – was born on December 4, 1967. He was shot and killed near his car in the Montreal borough of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on December 28, 2009. Another son is Leonardo Rizzuto.
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