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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... women's suffrage movement and participated in marches. On more than one occasion, her husband had to call upon his many contacts among New York policemen to stand by to rescue Edith from any violence during suffragist marches on Fifth ...
... Women's Christian Temperance Union and held no high opinion of journalists, whom she saw as “just a stripe above drunkards” (M. Inglis, 1987). 33 Little is known of Edith's own association with well-known people, although we do have a ...
... women's suffrage, civil service reform, bureaus of social research, expansion of cooperatives, and the decline of party-based government. To interested Methodists, the spiritual and social platform of the Bahá'í Faith was a natural ...
... , you will come with your child!” (ibid.). Her daughter, Mary, was born on 10 August 1910 in New York City. By 1909 May Maxwell was serving on the “Unity Band,” a Bahá'í organization set up to correspond with the Women's Assemblies of.
Will C. van den Hoonaard. organization set up to correspond with the Women's Assemblies of the East. May Maxwell's specific responsibilities included writing to the Bahá'í Women's Assembly in Zanjan, Persia (Star of the West, 21 March ...
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