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. 13 synthesis (ibid.: 93). When he undertook a trip to his native Saskatchewan accompanied by his ... West, situated in a northern Chicago suburb (Star of the West, 17 May 1910, p. 19). In 1912, he wrote engaging ...
Will C. van den Hoonaard. The Culvers must have become Bahá'ís in London before 1906, when Henry Culver was assigned to go ... West, 20 August 1910, p. 13), and had become identified with the early days of the Bahá'í Faith at that school ...
Will C. van den Hoonaard. Bahá'ís. The honour of permanently establishing the Bahá'í community of Canada rightfully ... West Indies. One of the islands in the Parry Islands group in Canada's Arctic was named “Dealy” (113°54'43” latitude) ...
Will C. van den Hoonaard. 19 “1893: First Canadian Bahá'í,” 1979: 12, states that it was Edith ... West 75th Street, New York, dated 12 June 1913 (8:45 p.m.), MP. 23 One of these letters is found in “Tablets from Abdul-Bahá” (Star of the West ...
Will C. van den Hoonaard. the Bahá'í Faith in Chicago (and to some extent in Montreal). Born in 1855 in Athens, Ontario ... West, 13 July 1915, p. 58). The family lived in Montreal and participated in the Green Acre Bahá'í School in Maine ...
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