Michaelle Haughian

Dissertation of Anna Gipters (later Rudovics) as submitted to the Faculty of Dentistry at the Marburg University, Germany in 1946.

Program from the 1950 Baltic Memorial Day. View 3.

Gipters family portrait, 1928, Daugavpils, Latvia.
left to right: Leontyne, on father's knee Vera, Janis, Emilija, Anna standing at back, Agnese (Stepmother), Inese on lap.

Dr. Ena Rudovics on the occasion of the 2011 Latvian Independence Day Memorial celebration accepted a citation for her cultural preservation efforts as president of Imanta, the Edmonton Latvian Cultural Association.

1976 Toronto Latvian Song Festival attended by the Edmonton-based Latvian folk dance group, "Daina".

1949 publication by the Baltic Federation of Canada.

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.

Detail and publication information for Latvian book distributed in Germany and supported by UNNRA.

Popular Latvian book by one of the "two mothers of Latvian literature", Anna Brigaderes (1861-1933) about a peasant boy who has adventures in the forest near his family home. There is a museum in Tervete, Latvia which honours this key Latvian author.

Latvian book published in Germany and distributed to all displaced ethnic Latvians in Germany.

Dr. Anna Rudovics nee Gipters in her first Edmonton dental office, 1957.

Land patent of Latvian John Jones, Alberta settler.

Elma Trankaris (married name Bruzis), who always had an interest in hospitality and cooking, was a kitchen helper in the Liepzig displaced persons camp. She is seen here serving soup to refugees in the Liepzig area displaced persons camp, Germany.

Photograph - Aleksandrs Kundrats Journalistic pass ( Baltic Delegation - Hanover Germany)

Alfreds Dimitris in a Latvian Riflemen military uniform, circa 1917. In WWI the Russian Imperial Army conscripted Latvian men to its anti-German initiatives in the Baltics. These men became the United Latvian Riflemen Division of the Russian Imperial Army. Under the leadership of the Russians this Latvian division suffered heavy losses. Because of these grievous losses many Latvians became sympathetic to the anti-imperialist, Bolshevik sentiments.

Traditional Latvian weaving by ethnic Latvian Biruta Friemanis.

Uldis Delveris(in Scout uniform) and friend in displaced persons camp, Germany ca 1946

Baiba and Uldis Kundrats on the wooden sidewalk connecting their Jasper Place home to the outhouse in the back yard, ca 1950. The Kundrats family lived across the street from the Muzis family.

Decorative leather cover on a photo album in the Bruzis home, Lake Isle, Alberta.

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

Folk dancers of Edmonton. Circa 1950.

Latvian folk art in the Benkis home.

Baiba Trautmanis (later Benkis) in Hannover, Germany after a harrowing journey from Russian-dominated East Germany. 1949.

Elma Trankalis (married name Bruzis) in Germany, circa 1945.

Obituary of Olga Jones, ethnic Latvian and Alberta settler.