The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2010 M10 30 - 368 pages What binds together Louis Riel’s former secretary, a railroad inventor, a Montreal comedienne, an early proponent of Canada’s juvenile system and a prominent Canadian architect? Socialists, suffragists, musicians, artists—from 1898 to 1948, these and some 550 other individual Canadian Bahá’ís helped create a movement described as the second most widespread religion in the world. Using diaries, memoirs, official reports, private correspondence, newspapers, archives and interviews, Will C. van den Hoonaard has created the first historical account of Bahá’ís in Canada. In addition, The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 clearly depicts the dynamics and the struggles of a new religion in a new country. This is a story of modern spiritual heroes—people who changed the lives of others through their devotion to the Bahá’í ideals, in particular to the belief that the earth is one country and all of humankind are its citizens. Thirty-nine original photographs effectively depict persons and events influencing the growth of the Bahá’í movement in Canada. The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 makes an original contribution to religious history in Canada and provides a major sociological reference tool, as well as a narrative history that can be used by scholars and Bahá’ís alike for many years to come. |
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... Maxwell of Montreal (“In Memoriam,” 1938-40: 631-42), one of Canada's most influential and historically significant Bahá'ís before 1940. Little is known of Bahá'í work carried out by others. A reader may naturally raise the question as ...
... Maxwell, visited the Culvers, she described the Culver family as forming the “nucleus of the group here . . . a beautiful Bahá'í family, filled with the spirit of service, ... a real ornament to the cause of God.”30 The Bahá'í group in ...
... Maxwell, who married the Canadian architect William Sutherland Maxwell and moved to Montreal in 1902—when Edith Magee moved to the United States. A study of Edith Magee's life and, indeed, of those other early expatriate Canadians, has ...
... Maxwell to “Beloved Sister” (presumably Corinne True), 27 June 1917, AW. 31 I am indebted to Rosanne Buzzell, archivist of the Eliot Bahá'í Community, for suggesting this possibility. 32 He would often publish under his nom de plume ...
... Maxwell in the spring of 1906. He taught the Bahá'í Faith to large gatherings every night of his nine-day visit. May Maxwell rented a house with a large parlour for these meetings (Gail, 1987: 221, 226). Miss Agnes Alexander of Hawaii ...
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