Andy Auzins

With a Latvian relative to guide them, Andy and his wife toured Riga in 1994.

Confirmation celebration at Grace Lutheran Church, Edmonton, Alberta, 1956. Ollie and Andy Auzins with the Antons and cousin Dave Peterson. Reverend Berzins officiated.

Valdis and Mary Auzins with sons on an NSU motorcycle, Latvia.

First new car for Mr. Auzins was a 1952 Plymouth. Photo taken in front of home in Pigeon Lake, Alberta.

"Ollie" Uldis Auzins in Edmonton Police Service uniform, 1978.

Framing the Auzins' house in Pigeon Lake, Alberta, 1949.

Andy Auzins on the Pigeon Lake property.

Auzins family at Pigeon Lake, Alberta.

Ligo guests arriving on the Auzins family farm, 1952.

Anna Peterson and family finally reunited with her sister Mary Auzins in August of 1948. The Petersons sponsored the Auzins, enabling their immigration to Canada. Auzins family in centre.

Departing by refugee ship from Ventspils, Latvia, October, 1944.

Auzins in Latvia with their new arrival, son Uldis "Ollie". Photo taken ca 1935.

Voldemar and Mary Auzins in their Edmonton home, 1959.

"Ollie" Uldis Auzins surveying the old family property in Latvia, 1991.

The Auzins at the Fischbach DP camp near Nuremburg, Germany. Sons George and Ollie in Scout uniforms; Andy on right. Ca 1946.

Pigeon Lake party on the Auzins' farm.

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.

Black & white photo of the Auzin's family homestead house under construction at Pigeon Lake, Alberta

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).

Black & white photo of Valdis Auzins and his son Ollie in their modified 1929 Chevrolet turck in front of their homestead home at Pigeon Lake, Alberta

B & W photo of the Auzin's family taken at Fischbach DP Camp near Nuremberg, Germany in 1947; where they remained for three years before re-locating to Canada. Boys in Boy Scout uniforms.

Black & white photo of George and Ollie Auzins standing in front of Auzins family home in Edmonton, Alberta. Ollie in Edmonton City Police uniform

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

Black & white photo of the Auzin'd dancing at a celebration dance