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, helped organize a Latvian song festival in Toronto – the first song festival of its kind to be held...
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