Berzins

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 newspaper as a journalist, mother did not continue her career, she worked on computers, various jobs in hotels, liquer board

Baiba Berzins talks about trying to survive - they had nothing. Came in 1948

Baiva Berzins description of being the only Latvian family in Gainsborough area, on their own, no blending - just trying to survive

Baiba Berzins talks about Riga "Little Paris of Europe", Latvian jewellery (Amber), St. Martin's Day, the Latvians really embracing everything there was here

Baiba Berzins talks about her family immigration experience into Canada. Toronto, Edmonton area. Her father was a Journalist, her mother a mathematician. Family very engaged in Latvian traditions in Alberta and Toronto ( woodwork, Latvian music, Saturday School in Toronto, Latvian Amber jewellery, making Klingeris celebratory bread a new family tradition in Canada). A motherland trip home to Latvia, KBG Interrogation, Grandfather Berzins buried in Latvia, Reverend Berzins. Very involved in Latvian community in Canada, Riga considred "Little Paris" very cosmopolitan.

Baiba and Uldis Kundrats standing on wooden sidewalk together

Baiba Kundrats birth certificate

Baiba Kundrats nee Berzins wearing Latvian tradional dress holding her doll (also in traditional dress)

Baiba Berzins nee Kundrats wearing traditional Canadian western wear

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

Baiba Berzins Canadian Citizenship Certificate

Baiba Kundrats Canadian Citizenship certificate

Immigration Cetificate Kundrats Berzins - Province of Quebec

Baiba Kundrats nee Berzins with the handmade cost her mother sewed romy uniforms

Ruth KundratsImmigration I.D. Card juaranteeing passge aboard the passenger ship the 'Samaria"

Baiba Berzins nee Kundrats wearing traditional Lativan costume

Biba and Uldis Kundrats wearing traditional Latvian clothing

Baiba Berzins father and brother ( Uldis) working on traditio9nal Latvian woodwork

A program regarding a cultural event ( Latvian)

Baiba Berzins nee Kundrats German and Canadian Immigration Certificate (German Exits branch)