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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... had become Bahá'í adherents. Kate Cowan Ives (1863-1927) was the first woman in the Occident to accept the Bahá'í Faith and to remain steadfast in her newfound religion. Originally from Newfoundland, her parents had settled in the ...
... became Riel's link with white farmers, and, with Riel, he wrote a political manifesto. Riel trusted Jackson, as a special prayer written by Riel reveals: “We beg You ... to take care of them always, if You please: my friend William ...
... Bahá'í described Aimee as a “very plain lady, but she had charm” (Loeding, 1985). She became a devoted believer on 5 October 1897, four months after her husband.15 Elected president of the “Women's Assembly of Teaching,”16 she taught the ...
... became a Bahá'í: Well, of course, through my father and mother, I guess. Yes, I guess so, that must have been it. I'll tell you how my mother became a Bahá'í. We lived in Canada, in London, Ontario, a little town . . . and a friend of ...
... become mainstay summer residents of the Green Acre Bahá'í School in Eliot, Maine (Star of the West, 20 August 1910, p. 13), and had become identified with the early days of the Bahá'í Faith at that school. Green Acre was hardly a “Bahá'í ...
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