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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Will C. van den Hoonaard. 19 “1893: First Canadian Bahá'í,” 1979: 12, states that it was Edith Magee's mother, Esther Annie, who apparently had gone to Chicago and it was she who returned to Canada as a Bahá'í. The source of this ...
Will C. van den Hoonaard. determining forever the Canadian Bahá'í landscape, but her direct teaching work bore more fruit than that of any other known Bahá'í. She left a profound legacy to the Canadian Bahá'í community in terms of the ...
... Bahá'í Women's Assembly in Zanjan, Persia (Star of the West, 21 March 1910 ... community in particular and Canadian life as a whole. Martha MacBean, Arthur ... Bahá'í in France. Both Sutherland Maxwell and his cousin Martha MacBean are ...
... Canadian Bahá'í community.1 Moreover, 46% of the fifty-two believers in Canada found the new religion in Montreal (ibid.).2 What were the salient characteristics of this group of new believers? How were they drawn to the new religion ...
... (Bahá'í News, April 1937, p. 8). Dorothy Wade was another early Montreal Bahá ... community by May Maxwell was Elsa Clapham, whose stage name was Judy Russell ... Canadian Bahá'í community had been administratively joined since its birth ...
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