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Baltic Evening 6/8 (1991)

In IS of FA the title is: Baltic Evening August 1991; Ottawa (06-08)

Amateur films Duration 14:37

Sünopsis

In September 1991 Baltic Federation in Canada held a festive dinner in Westin Harbor Castle Hotel in Toronto in order to celebrate the restoration of independence of the Baltic states. More than 800 participants were present, including Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, members of Canadian government and parliament, city advisers of Toronto. Speech by Michael Wilson, Minister of Industry, Science, Technology and Foreign Trade. Toomas Trei, Secretary of the Baltic Federation in Canada, is the Master of Ceremonies who introduces Ilmar Heinsoo, the honorary consul general of the Republic of Estonia who gives Michael Wilson the prewar banknotes of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and a T-shirt with symbols of the Baltic states as a present.

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