Linda Payne

Border crossing identification card for Peteris Alutis, detail of back view. Issued in New York State, USA.

Detail of Ausma Alutis' war time passport.

Canadian citizenship document for ethnic Latvian Peteris Alutis, father of Alberta resident Ausma Briedis nee Alutis.

Ojars Briedis in the company of his mother and brother on the tragic occasion of his father's funeral, Latvia.

Photograph of the General Blatchford, the ship that brought the Alutis family to Canada.

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

Discharge papers of Ausma Alutis after completion of her one year mandatory domestic service in Canada.

Linda with her children, her husband, and her parents, Ojars and Ausma Briedis (seated).

Border crossing identification card for Peteris Alutis, ethnic Latvian living temporarily in the United States.

Canadian citizenship document for ethnic Latvian Peteris Alutis, father of Alberta resident Ausma Briedis nee Alutis.

Certificate of discharge and health screening for Ojars Briedis, Stuttgart, Germany.

Employment reference for ethnic Latvian living in Germany, Peteris Alutis.

Ethnic Latvian Ausma Alutis' confirmation day portrait, Latvia.

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

Wurzburg displaced persons camp ID card for Ausma Alutis (married surname Briedis).

A 1946 report card for Ausma Alutis.

Detail of Ausma Alutis' war time passport.

Document from Latvian Church in Exile confirming baptism and confirmation of Peteris Alutis, ethnic Latvian living in Germany.

Recent family portrait of the next two generations of Alutis and Briedis.

Certificate from the Latvian University Extension in Wurzburg, Germany declaring that ethnic Latvian Peteris Alutis was knowledgeable in the field of welding.

Certificate of Testing for Peteris Alutis, Faculty of Extension, University of Wurzburg, Germany.

Identification document for Ausma Alutis, ethnic Latvian displaced in Germany.

Border crossing identification card for Peteris Alutis.

Alutis family portrait, Latvia.

Certificate from the Latvian University Extension, Wurburg, Germany for displaced ethnic Latvian Peteris Alutis, 1948.