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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... organize a World Conference of Anarchists. He was falsely accused of plotting to bomb the White House in Washington—an accusation that the press relished. In 1897, when he turned thirty-three, this “socialist organizer” (Flanagan, 1976 ...
... organized a study group in 1899, probably using notes from Kheiralla's classes in Chicago (Martin, 1983). It was not long before the United States consul, Henry Stark Culver, and his family accepted the new religion.28 Dorothy Cress, a ...
... organizing the Bahá'í community (TCP, 14 and 19 January 1910). According to Thornton Chase (America's first steadfast believer), Woodcock had an “extreme view of things,” which included astrology and asceticism, and “other dangerous and ...
... , 1989:121-22). She was the sole Canadian delegate of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom at The Hague Conference (1922), and was an active member of the Toronto Board of Education. Henderson organized a.
... organized a peace poster contest in Toronto's technical schools, in which Arthur Lismer (of the Group of Seven painters) exhibited. In 1936 she became a “leading figure” in the Toronto Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)27 ...
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