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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... Bahá'í Group in London, Ontario By 1898-99 Canada's first Bahá'í group consisted of eighteen-year-old Edith Magee, her fifteen-year-old sister Harriet, her mother Annie, who was fortytwo, and possibly Annie Magee's two sisters, Rose and ...
... 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 London, however, did not fare well, because the personal circumstances of the Magee family ...
... Bahá'í history: the first mention of the Bahá'í Faith in North America and the founding of Canada's first Bahá'í group in London, Ontario. The next chapter explores the first decade of Bahá'ís in Montreal, the anvil upon which depended ...
... Bahá'í. The source of this information is not indicated and the only ... group in London in the City Directory, or in the local newspapers, although ... Bahá'í Community, for suggesting this possibility. 32 He would often publish under ...
... Bahá'í Faith. The Rosicrucian belief in reincarnation, which remains a ... group there, which, in April 1918, was approved as an “Assembly” by Bahái ... Bahá'í in 1913, Mrs. Esther Rennels,18 who first appears on an early Bahá'í ...
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