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Guelph Veterinary College where, once in Canada, Peteris Poruks completed his studies in Veterinary Medicine. Postcard image from Poruks family.

Embroidered Latvian pillow decorates the home of ethnic Latvian Ilda Lubane.

Alfreds and Paulina Dimitris with their daughter, Cesis, Latvia. Circa 1927.

The Latvian folk dance group, "Daina" on the occasion of their 1975 performance in Fort Edmonton Park for the annual Heritage Days festival.

News clipping from the Imanta Independence Day celebration of 1968, with Dr. Anna Rudovics' comments.

The Dimitris family enjoyed the beaches of Latvia. Circa 1935.

Front page detail of Ulderis Delveris' passport.

Latvian Women's basketball team visited Edmonton in 2005 and enjoyed an Imanta welcome.

Latvian Women's basketball team visited Edmonton in 2005 and enjoyed an Imanta welcome.

School document of Anna Gipters (later Rudovics) received from the Marburg University, Germany, 1946.

Ausma Briedis nee Alutis and Ojars Briedis on the occasion of their wedding, 1949.

Page excerpt of weaving pattern book published by Irma Lesins, ethnic Latvian and accomplished weaver.

Manhatten, New York census, USA wherein Latvian emigres John Jones, wife Olga and daughter Annie temporarily lived prior to their immigration to Canada.

Ausma with her baby daughter, Christine.

Headstone of Annie Foran nee Jones, daughter of John and Olga of Lake Isle, Alberta. Magnolia Cemetery.

Antique ice auger on the Jones' homestead, Lake Isle, Alberta. 2011.

Example of Latvian weaving. Photo taken December, 2011.

Banff School of Fine Arts Catalogue, 1970. Art instructor Ilda Lubane taught at the Banff School.

Mr. Janis Birzgalis, President of Imanta with his wife Mrs. Ausma Birzgalis nee Janiten, owner and operator of Venta Care Centre.

Boy Scouts and schoolchildren surrounded an American military ambulance in a German refugee camp in 1946.

Latvian folk art adorns the walls of Vilis Korns' Calgary home.

Janis and Ausma Birzgalis, owners of Venta Care Centre hosted the 2004 Jani celebration at the Venta Care Centre. Janis second from left, bottom row and Ausma third from left, standing row.

Ausma Birzgalis and Helen Richards at an Imanta event.

Official paper discharging new immigrant Ojars Briedis from his one year contract with an Ontario Pulp and Paper Mill. 1948.

Fellow Latvians, Ludmilla Cinats, Anna Rudovics, and Viola Baker enjoyed a visit in the Cinats' house in 1956.

Detail of Ausma Alutis' war time passport.

Linda Celmainis and daughter Diane on acreage in Red Deer, Alberta.

The Kalnins boys were given cowboy hats by their aunt, Ilda Lubane. Marta Kalnins on the left. Banff, 1960.

Alfreds Dimitris, age 93, Canada.

Peteris Poruks in Turin, Alberta where he completed his mandatory year of labour, as per the immigration regulations, in the sugar beet industry. 1949.

Donna Birzgalis in traditional Latvian costume.

Uldis Delveris and friends in Germany.

Cynthia Jones shows an old bird's nest in an antique bowl that was left among the ruins of original farm buildings. Lake Isle, Alberta.

Harvest time in Lake Isle for the Mutzeneek men.

Grave marker of Latvian immigrant Anna Jones, mother of Lake Isle, Alberta settler John Jones. Magnolia Cemetery, 2011.

Eddie Jones and unknown gentleman show the spoils of the latest hunt. As a supplement to farming income, the Latvians in Lake Isle hunted and trapped in the winter months.

1936 graduating class photograph of a teachers' college attended by Anna Rudovics nee Gipters in Latgale, Latvia, 1936. Anna fourth from left, second row from top.

Painting commissioned in 1970 by the Royal Alexandra Hospital for the maternity ward. Prepared on untempered masonite with acrylic paint. Because of the traffic in the hospital, Ilda had to work during the night for two months.

Linda Celmainis and daughter Diane on acreage in Red Deer, Alberta.

Inira aka Sarah Celmainis in national costume made by mother Linda, Sweden, circa 1948.