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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... April 1971, p. 10. 111 “Brief Account of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Visit to This Shrine.” 112 Mahmoud-i-Zarqání, n.d.: 137. 113 Ibid. 114 The author combed the Borden Papers (M.G. 26, H, Volume 353), National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, for any ...
... April 1913, AL, Box 27, Folder 18. John Pridmore was already familiar with the Bahá'í faith in 1916 through May Maxwell and attended the 1919 Bahá'í national convention in New York (letter from May Maxwell, Montreal, to Alfred E. Lunt ...
... April 1913, lists only a Mrs. Charles Nickel for 1913. Both Mr. and Mrs. Nickel were listed as Bahá'ís well into 1928 (Bahá'í News, January 1929, p. 2). 136 “1916 Membership List,” AL, Box 27, Folder 20. 137 Mrs. M. Emilie Walker, 186 ...
... April 1914 Dr. Zia Bagdadi, an Arab from Syria and a devoted Bahá'í companion of 'Abdu'1-Bahá, married Zeenat Khánum, daughter of Hasan Aqá Tabrizi, a personal attendant of 'Abdu'1-Bahá in Akka,3 in the Maxwell home (BHRC).4 The ...
... April 1937, p. 8). Dorothy Wade was another early Montreal Bahá'í. Born in England in 1909, Wade married a widower with a six-month-old baby at the age of seventeen.12 Her mother's family was “horrified,” and made her come home. However ...
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