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Baltic Freedom 1991 Celebration at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Balti riikide vabanemise tähistamine Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

Celebration of "Baltic Freedom´91" at Nathan Phillips Square, Torontos. The Baltic people in Canada are celebrating the restoration of the Baltic States.

Hundreds of expatriate Baltic people have gathered under the national flags to Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto on the evening of November 1st. People in high spirits are celebrating the restoration of the independence in three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Art Eggleton, mayor of Toronto, holds an opening speech after which a memorial tablet "Freedom Arches" is being inaugurated. The tablet has been applied to a post taken from the Berlin Wall and has texts in English and French on it. There are representatives of the expatriate Baltic youth lining up at the square, dressed in national ...
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Baltic uprising – Latvia Riga barricades

Title in Estonian: CBC News teleintervjuu: Läti jaanuarisündmuste 1991 vastukaja

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

Dr Guntis Silinš, Consul of the Republic of Latvia in Toronto, tells in the TV interview given to CBC News about the fight for independence in Latvia and Gorbachev's politics in the Baltic States.

Dr Guntis Silinš, Consul of the Republic of Latvia in Toronto, tells in the TV interview given to CBC News about the fight for independence in Latvia and Gorbachev's politics in the Baltic States. Dr Silinš explains the era of awakening in the Baltic States at the second half of 1980s in his interview given in Riga, January 1991. Late 1980s was the time when Gorbachev's policy of "demokratizatsiya" gave the Baltic people new hopes for future. Recent violents events by Soviet authorities in Lithuania and Latvia disappointed people in Gorbachev's policy and caused a setback in the process of ...
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Bob Rae´s interview in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Rob Rae intervjuu Torontos

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

Canadian politician Bob Rae is being interviewed by journalists and tells about the political situation in the Baltic States and the recent violent events in Lithuania and Latvia in January 1991.

Bob Rae (Robert Keith Rae) is an expatriate Estonian politician in Canada who gives an interview in the office of the Prime Minister of Canada in Toronto. He tells the journalists about the Soviet occupation in the Baltic States, the political awakening of the Baltics and their struggle for democracy and independence; also, about the dramatic events that took place in Riga and Vilnius in January 1991. Next to Bob Rae there are representatives of Lithuanian and Latvian refugee organizations.
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Food aid to Latvia

Title in Estonian: Toiduabi Läti elanikele

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Latvians in Canada load the food aid packages to the shipping containers in order to send the aid to the Republic of Latvia that has recently regained its independence.

Expatriate Latvian men in Canada are busy loading humanitarian aid packages into the shipping containers in Toronto in order to send these to homeland. Organizer of the humanitarian aid for Latvians gives an interview where he comments that everything has succeeded. In three weeks, thousands of packages of humanitarian aid, including food, clothes etc., were collected that are now being sent to the relatives and acquaintances in Latvia.
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Interview with a Latvian Canadian mother whose daughter is in Riga during the barricades

Original title: Intervjuu Kanada läti emaga, kelle tütar on Riias barrikaadidel

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel, Other categories, Film footage | Director:

TV interview with a Latvian Canadian mother whose daughter happened to in the middle of the tragic events in Riga while going on a trip to Latvia.

Latvian mother contacts her daughter, who has taken a trip to Latvia, on the phone. The daughter happens to get into the middle of the tragic events in central Riga where the Soviet OMON commando started to shoot the unarmed protesters on barricades on January 20, 1991. Among the protesters was also her daughter. Naturally, mother's worry for her daughter's safety was extremely big, fortunately she made it. Similarly to the majority of expatriate Latvians in Canada, mother is passionately supporting the restoration of independence of the Republic of Latvia. Photographs of the mother and daughter.
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Latvian meeting at the time of barricades in Riga 1991

Title in Estonian: 6. Kanada lätlaste koosolek Riia jaanuarisündmuste 1991 ajal

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Expatriate Latvians in Canada have gathered in a hall in Toronto in order to discuss the political situation in Latvia, namely the dramatic events in Riga in January 1991.

Members of the community of expatriate Latvians in Canada have gathered in the hall in Toronto where they discuss the political situation in Latvia after the armed attack by OMON (Soviet special forces) towards demontrating civilians in central Riga on January 20, 1991. Speeches by the representatives of the Latvian community. The government of Canada is asked to react to the antidemocratic attacks in the Baltic states with a protest and express support towards the fight for independence. Speech is held by Valdis Liepins who represents the Latvian National Federation in Canada. Phone call is made to Riga where the ...
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Lithuanianʹs Community Information Bureau in Toronto

Title in Estonian: Toronto Leedu kogukonna infobüroo

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Forms are being filled in at the Lithuanian Community Information Bureau in Toronto, also operational information about the tragic events in Vilnius in 1991 is given.

The Lithuanian Community Information Bureau looks busy. People are filling in forms and giving signatures. Information about the events in Vilnius on January 1991 is being collected and mediated both via phone and fax. Worker at the information bureau gives an interview to the news channel CBC News (synchronized). The interviewee tells about the Soviet armed agression against the protesters in Vilnius. Western world should definitely react to the efforts of the Baltic states for regaining their independence. The interviewee believes that Mikhail Gorbachev has lost control over the events taking place in the Soviet Union.
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Mass of Lithuanian Community in Toronto 1/2

Title in Estonian: Toronto Leedu kogukonna missa 1/2

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Church service of expatriate Lithuanians in Canada for supporting the fight for independence in Lithuania.

Expatriate Lithuanians in Canada express solidarity towards the fight for freedom in their homeland Lithuania with the mass that takes place in the Church of Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Toronto. People are gathering in the church, holding lit candles, national flags are brought in, Lithuanian national anthem and other Lithuanian songs are being sung with the accompaniment of the church organ. There is a solemn atmosphere in the church, some people have tears in their eyes. The priest of the Catholic Church is talking, then everyone prays. Richard Johnson, the representative of Lithuanian community in Canada, gives ...
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Mass of Lithuanian Community in Toronto 2/2

Title in Estonian: Toronto Leedu kogukonna missa 2/2

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Second part of the church service of expatriate Lithuanians in Canada for supporting the fight for independence in Lithuania held on January 11, 1990.

Second part of the church service of expatriate Lithuanians in Canada for supporting the fight for independence in Lithuania held on January 11, 1990. The mass has ended, reporter is asking the people leaving the church questions about the fight for independence in Lithuania. The interviewees talk about the political awakening in their homeland, the desire for freedom and democracy. The poeople of Lithuania who have been living under the Soviet occupation for fifty years, want political independence and better future. All men and women who were interviewed believe and hope that Lithuania will restore its independence.
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Members of Canadian Government returning from their visit to Lithuania at Toronto Airport

Title in Estonian: Kanada valitsuse esindajad saabuvad tagasi Leedust

1991 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director:

Richard Johnson, representative of Canada, returns from Lithuania and is being warmly welcomed at the Toronto Airport on January 13, 1991.

Richard Johnson, representative of Canadian Government, returns from Lithuania and is being warmly welcomed at the Toronto Airport on January 13, 1991. Lots of people have gathered to the airport, holding Lithuanian national flags, flowers and posters with texts in English. Posters say that aggression should be ended in Lithuania, Gorbachev should be stopped, and Canadian politician Bob Rae is being thanked. Richard Johnson arrives and gets immediately surrounded by journalists after he has hugged his wife. In his interview, Johnson talks about the political situation in Lithuania, events in front of the House of Parliament, Vilnius etc. The audience ...
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