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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... Maxwell's approach to the new religion, and her efforts to influence the causes of education, of African Canadians, and of the dispossessed, were of the first order. Unlike her Bahá'í predecessors in Canada, who were either infused with ...
... Maxwell, also a student of architecture at 1'Ecole des Beaux Arts. Maxwell was a Canadian of Scottish background, and a member of an old and noted Montreal family. The couple married on 8 May 1902 in London, England. At the age of ...
... Maxwell's specific responsibilities included writing to the Bahá'í Women's Assembly in Zanjan, Persia (Star of the West, 21 March 1910, p. 4). Let us consider some of the early believers in Montreal whose conversions were the work of ...
Will C. van den Hoonaard. Another relative of the Maxwell family to become a Bahá'í in those early days of Montreal was German-born Mrs. Jeanne Bolles, May Maxwell's sister-in-law (RSP). She would later travel widely in Europe, visiting ...
... Maxwell were progressing so well that on 19 May 1908 Montreal's sixteen believers designated themselves as the “Montreal Branch of the Bahá'í Temple Association” (CHSR, 19 May 1908).28 Four years later, the Montreal Bahá'ís were ready ...
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The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 Will C. van den Hoonaard No preview available - 1996 |