New president kept Latvia close in Canada
Latvia close in Canada
Jul 01, 1999
Daniel Silva
Despite leaving Latvia when she was only seven and living most of her life in Montreal, a city that counts just 800 Latvians as residents, Vaira Vike-Freiberga managed to retain strong ties to her homeland. "I always found it amazing that her connection to the culture was so strong since she left at such a young age," the new president's daughter Indra Freibergs told The Montreal Gazette.Just four years after moving to Canada, during the summer of 1959, Vike-Freiberga and her husband, Imants, he ...
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