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Photograph - Students, likely at Forest Grove School (District No. 4209). Grassland, Alberta

Landscape of buildings on a rolling hill. All the buildings are white, one is a church and others appear to be barracks, Fort Chippewyan, Alberta. Note on the front reads: "Ft. Chippewyan Lake Athabasca". Note on the back reads: "All…

Photograph - Assistant Principal Albert Karvonen (bottom row, third from right) and teaching staff at Elmwood School in Edmonton, Alberta.

Photograph - The Artona Studio in Athabasca, Alberta was built in 1944 and originally housed Percy Taylor Photo Studio. The Echo building is on the right

Group of Alberta Latvian Candians celebrating Latvian Independence Day

Black & White portrait of Tom Peterson

Black & White photograph of the Auzin's homestead (located at Pigeon Lake) and guests arriving for the yearly celebration of "Ligo" (the traditional Latvian celebration of the longest day and the shortest night of the year).

Dr. Lesins picked us up to help us get around town, Dr. Lezins a Genetics professor, son played in NHL, we lived in the Lezins basement in Guelph Ontario

Scrapbook page: Includes a B&W photo of Ted & Viola Baker, descriptive history of Imanta in Alberta, Imanta's Mission and Purpose [1947], Updated Imanta Constitution of 2003, Goda Karte (Ted Baker Honourary and Lifetime member of Imanta)

Grace Lutheran Church from corner view

Blackl and white photo of group of people gathered to celebrate Imanta in early days at Lake Isle

A group of women sitting in a living room of an Edmotn home celebrating Imanata. Within decor are Latvian traditional functional wooden obejcts, original artwork

Written description of Baltic and early latvian history: archeological, early European, struggle for freedom and independance

Color poster announcing Imanta's 60th Anniversary Celebration at the Royal Glenora Club in Edmonton. November 18, 2007

Baiba talks about her parents and their employment - how her father and tohers tried to market Latvian wooodwork, her father working in 1948 ( manditory employment) at Princess Patricia Mines, mother a mathematician father worked for Latvian…

Latvian Canadian's from Alberta community seated in celebration of Latvian Inependance Day banquet, with musicians playing on stage

A list of names of people form families who were taken during the Soviet Invasions in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania during the Soviet Invasions - with Our Loss and Our Sympathy to relatives and friends. B & W sketch of Latvian girl in…

Latvian Coat of Arms with the Sun (symbol of National Statehood), the Eagle, Griffin or 'Vidzeme Latgale '(representing East Latvia), the Red Lion (symbol of West Latvia) and the Three Stars.

Ollie Auzins standing in frotn of badly neglected Auzins ancestral family home and lands in Adazi District ( near Riga). Not long after the end of Soviet occupation of Latvia.

A group of men and women standing in front of an indoor stage with a banner reading Imanta Edmontonas and Latvicsi Sveicuus! on the wall behind them

Black & white photo of Valdis Auzins lenaing against the family car at the Pigeon Lake homestead with family home and some family memebers in background

Dr. A.G. Rudovic's description of the history of the Red Army invasions of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and what occured when the Soviet Union forcebly incorporated masses of innocent people into Soviet GULAGS and Soviet laour camps by means…

A Canadian Latvian girl dressed in Latvian traditional clothing, with an intricate cultural display of Latvian Amber, inlade wooden and carved items (candleabra, boxes), woven tapestries and tableclothes, traditional foods, Latvian knitted patterns…

Photograph - A group of grade 9, 10, and 11 students at Athabasca Public School, Athabasca, Alberta. A note on the front reads: Principal: Hedley Graham Shaw (Tiny); Centre back: John Schulte