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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... Abdu'1-Bahá [sic] and then, so from then on, Mrs. Magee, they became more and more interested and ... all became Bahá'ís, then my mother did too. (Cress, 1982) The Culvers must have become Bahá'ís in London before 1906,
... , Sarah Farmer, daughter of Moses Garish Farmer, the nineteenth-century inventor of the lightbulb and the electric car, another attendee of the World Exposition in Chicago in 311893. The Magee family met 'Abdu'1-Bahá and hosted part of.
... Abdu'1-Bahá and hosted part of his stay in Eliot in August 1912. On that occasion, 'Abdu'1-Bahá met Edith Magee's husband, William Otto Inglis, whom she had married in 1910. Her marriage to the noted journalist connected her to several ...
... Abdu'1-Bahá designated Thornton Chase as America's “first believer” (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Japan, 1974: 257). Although there were three others who declared themselves as Bahá'ís before him, Chase remained ...
... Abdu'1-Bahá. Mrs. Magee is no. 84 in the photograph in Bahá'í World (1939: plate facing p. 219). 22 Postcard from V. Haack to Miss Harriet McGee (sic), 226 West 75th Street, New York, dated 12 June 1913 (8:45 p.m.), MP. 23 One of these ...
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