Joseph Toronto

While in Boston, Massachusetts in 1843, Toronto met Latter Day Saint missionaries, read the Book of Mormon (in English), and was baptized by George B. Wallace.

Toronto abandoned sailing and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois in 1845 to join the main gathering of Latter Day Saints.

[2] In 1848, Toronto emigrated as a Mormon pioneer from Illinois to Utah Territory and was the first Sardinian (coming from the Piedmont-Sardinia which would, in 1861, become Italy) to set foot in the Salt Lake Valley.

In Utah, he was employed as the keeper of the church's cattle herds on Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake.

In 1850, he traveled with Lorenzo Snow and Thomas B. H. Stenhouse to England and then on to continental Europe and became the first LDS Church missionaries in Italy.