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1949 8 Oct
194- |
Margaret Reid of Toronto re-located to St. John's becoming the first Bahá'í pioneer to that province. [BN No 227 January 1950 106BE p5] | Pioneering; Margaret Reid; St. Johns, NL | |
1949 11 Aug
194- |
The first public meeting ever held in Quebec City with Mrs. Hilda Yen Male as the speaker. Publicity was obtained in four newspapers, and a radio inter· view was arranged during which direct questions about the Faith were asked. [BN No 226 December 1949 106BE p9] | Proclamation; Hilda Yen; Québec City, QC | first public meeting in Québec City |
1949 19 Jun
194- |
Shoghi Effendi, in a letter to the new National Spiritual Assembly made first mention of a Hazlratu'l-Quds and a Mashriqu'l-Adhkár in Canada when he wrote:
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Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship) | |
1949 12 Jun
194- |
The tenth Annual International Picnic held at Queenston with 250 attending. Visitors from the United States, India, Trinidad, Barbadoes, and England were present to hear talks by Mrs. Edith MacLaren aod John Howe. [BN No 224 October 1949 p10] | International Bahá'í Picnic; Edith MacLaren; John Howe; Queenston Heights, ON | |
1949 May
194- |
The annual budget for 106B.E. was set at $15,000. [CBN 14 July 1950 p2] | Annual budget | |
1949 30 Apr
194- |
The Bill to incorporate the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada was passed by both Houses of the Canadian Parliament, and given Royal assent. The act established the name, named the officers as directors, stated the location of the headquarters, defined the objectives, gave it the right to manage the affairs of the Bahá'ís, to make by-laws and to hold property. It was used as a model for registration/incorporation in other states.
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National Spiritual Assembly, incorporation; Recognition (legal); National Spiritual Assembly, election of; Ottawa, ON | |
1949 Ridván
194- |
The second Canadian Bahá'í National Convention was held in Winnipeg, at Girl Guide House on Osborne Street North. The Winnipeg Bahá'í Community was by then one of seventeen Local Spiritual Assemblies in Canada.
A Public Congress in association with the Convention was held in the Art Gallery in the Civic Auditorium.
An address entitled "Consultation - An Adventure in Mature Discussion" was delivered by Elsie Austin. [CBN No 18 March 1951 p6] In nine years Winnipeg had gone from a Bahá'í goal to the host of the Bahá'í Community of Canada for its National Convention. At that time it had the highest rate of annual growth in the Bahá'í Community of Canada, suggesting a vitality not found in but few other communities. About one quarter of the new converts between 1937 and 1947 went pioneering. [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p20; OBCC207-210] |
National Convention; Winnipeg, MB | the first National Convention in Winnipeg. |
1949 Apr
194- |
Find details of the National Convention and election.
An address entitled "Consultation - An Adventure in Mature Discussion" was delivered by Elsie Austin. [CBN No 18 March 1951 p6] |
National Convention; National Spiritual Assembly, election of; Elsie Austin | |
1949 Jan (Late)
194- |
Jim and Melba Loft and their children, Sam, Arthur and Evelyn returned to Tyendinaga First Nation from Marysville Michigan. [RT43] |
Jim Loft; Melba Loft; Sam Loft; Arthur Loft; Evelyn Loft; Tyendinaga First Nation, ON | |
1949 (In the year)
194- |
Local Spiritual Assemblies were formed in Calgary and Veron, the 16th and 17th to be established. [CBN No 46 November, 1953 p2] | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Calgary, AB; Vernon, BC | |
1948 Oct - Jan
194- |
When Ottawa was a goal with only five believers, week after week, John Robarts took the Friday night train from Toronto to Ottawa and returned in time for work Monday morning. He rarely addressed public meetings and did not always lead the local fireside but he was there. His intensive effort was directed to this one need, his absorbing and sincerely loving interest in the enquirers, his enthusiasm for the Faith bore fruit and the Ottawa Spiritual Assembly was formed four months after his visits began. He had followed the same personal teaching plan that had be so successful in Hamilton. In neither place did he accomplish the task single-handedly. He was supported by the friends, and he supported them. [CBN No 72 Jan 1956 p4] | John Robarts; Teaching; Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Ottawa, ON | |
1948 7 - 14 Aug
194- |
First Baha'i conference held at Franklin Camp. Georgian Bay, Ontario. See photo. [Worldwide Community of Bahá'u'lláh | Summer schools; Georgian Bay, ON | |
1948 May
194- |
James Loft, a Mohawk from near Belleville became a Bahá'í, according to OBCC62, the first Native to enroll.
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James Loft; Jim Loft; Belleville, ON | |
1948 Ridvan
194- |
The newly formed National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada launched a Five Year Plan (1948-1953). [Ruhi 8.2 p46]
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- Teaching Plans; Greenland; Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada | |
1948 24 - 25 Apr
194- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Dominion of Canada was established. [BBRSM:186; BW13:856; MBW143; PP397; BW11p20]
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National Spiritual Assembly; National Convention; Laura Davis; Rowland Estall; Lloyd Gardner; Doris Richardson; John Robarts; Emeric Sala; Rosemary Sala; Siegfried Schopflocher; Ross Woodman; National Spiritual Assembly, election of; Montreal, QC | first National Convention |
1948 Ridván
194- |
The following were elected to the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Montréal: Siegfried Schopflocher, Gwen Inwood, Arthur Irwin, Milli Tina Gordon, Eddie Elliot, Adline Lohse, Bert Rakovsky; Amine De Mille; and René Roy. [OBCC146, 153] | Local Spiritual Assembly, election; Siegfried Schopflocher; Gwen Inwood; Arthur Irwin; Milli Tina Gordon; Eddie Elliot; Adline Lohse; Albert Rakovsky; Amine De Mille; René Roy; Montreal, QC | |
1948 1 Feb
194- |
The first Regional Conventions were held to elect delegates to the upcoming first National Convention. [OBCC308] | Conventions; Conventions, District | first Regional Conventions |
1948 1 Feb
194- |
The election of the 12th, 13th 14th, and 15th and spiritual assemblies in Ottawa, Scarboro, West Vancouver and Victoria. [OBCC224, 223, 219, 308]
Members of the first Spiritual Assembly of Ottawa were: Charles Murray, Marion TreDennick, Kenneth McLaren, Edna Hughes, Francoise Rouleau, Gladys Young (Harvey), Winnifred Harvey, Lucile Giscome and Helen Bidden |
Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Ottawa, ON; West Vancouver, BC; Victoria, BC; Scarborough, ON | |
1947 Dec
194- |
Earnest Court, a member of the first Spiritual Assembly of Winnipeg, passed away and was given the first Bahá'i funeral in Winnipeg. It was conducted by his good friend, Rowland Estall. [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p19] | - In Memoriam; Earnest Court; Rowland Estall; Winnipeg, MB | he first Bahá'i funeral in Winnipeg. |
1947 Nov
194- |
Noel Wuttunee and Gerda Chrostopherson, both who had recently moved from Calgary, accepted the Faith and were married in Winnipeg. [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p19] | Noel Wuttunee; Gerda Christofferson; Marriage; Winnipeg, MB; Calgary, AB | |
1947 Oct
194- |
Rowland Estall and his new wife Yvonne pioneered to St Boniface, a goal area for the Winnipeg community, along with Shirley Nichelson and Ted Whitely. [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p19]
Note: On 1 January 1972, the city of Winnipeg amalgamated with old Winnipeg and Metro along with the rural municipalities of Charleswood, Fort Garry, North Kildonan, and Old Kildonan; the Town of Tuxedo; the cities of East Kildonan, West Kildonan, St. Vital, Transcona, St. Boniface, and St. James-Assiniboia into one city. |
Rowland Estall; Yvonne Terrill Estall; Shirley Nichelson; Ted Whitely; Winnipeg, MB; St. Boniface, MB | |
1947 7 Oct
194- |
The first Bahá'í wedding in Winnipeg took place between Rowland Estall and Yvonne Killins. Ross Woodman officiated, and the event was held at "the Business and Professional Women's Club". [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p19] | Rowland Estall; Yvonne Killins; Ross Woodman; Winnipeg, MB | first wedding between Bahá'ís in Winnipeg |
1947 Oct
194- |
Noel Wuttunee (Eagle's Tail Feathers) a Cree from Calgary was the first Indigenous Canadian to join the community. [Bahá'í Canada Site; OBCC153]
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Noel Wuttunee; Eagles Tail Feathers; Prairie Indian Committee; Edmonton, AB; Calgary, AB | First Indigenous person to become a Bahá'í in Canada |
1947 18 Jul
194- |
Melba Loft, (née Whetung), a Chippewa, became a Bahá'í while she was living in Michigan. She was the first Native Canadian to become a Bahá'í. [A Selected timeline related to the history of the Baha'is of Alberta]
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Melba Loft | First Canadian First Nations Bahá'í to enrol in the Faith in Canada. |
1947 Ridván
194- |
In 1937 there had been 18 localities and 2 spiritual assembly. Ten years later there were 38 localities and 13 spiritual assemblies. [OBCC178] | Statistics | |
1947 Ridván
194- |
The formation of the twelfth and thirteenth spiritual assemblies in Canada in Scarborough, ON and Vernon, BC. [OBCC178] | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Scarborough, ON; Vernon, BC | |
1947 (In the year)
194- |
The purchase of the Beaulac site, Canada's first nationally owned summer and winter school site. This site would serve the community until the early 70's.(OBCC164, BNNov1947p10-11] | Summer schools; Winter schools; Beaulac, QC | First nationally-owned summer and winter school property. |
1946 25 Nov
194- |
A large public meeting was sponsored by the Bahá'í Public Relations Committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada. It was held in the Concert Hall of the Winnipeg Auditorium and was attend by more than four hundred people. The speakers were Edris Rice-Ray, an American and Emeric Sala, a Canadian. [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p18] | Edris Rice-Wray; Emeric Sala; Winnipeg, MB | |
1946 23 - 25 Nov
194- |
A Public Campaign was held in Winnipeg.
Due to the participation of Audrey Robarts many prominent people attended some of the events including the wife of the Lieutenant-Governor of the province. |
Edris Rice-Wray; Emeric Sala; Audrey Robarts; Ross Woodman; Winnipeg, MB | |
1946 Ridvan
194- |
The Second Seven Year Plan of the United States and Canada (1946-1953) was launched. [BBR180; BBRSM158, 185; MA87-89, MA89]
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Seven Year Plan; - Teaching Plans | |
1946 - 1950
194- |
Helen Poissant who had learned of the Faith in Winnipeg from Lillian Tomlinson, pioneered to Saskatoon. [OBCC186] | Helen Poissant; Lillian Tomlinson; Pioneering; Winnipeg, MB; Saskatoon, SK | |
1946 (In the year)
194- |
The Beaulac property, near Rawdon was purchased by Rosemary and Emeric Sala in partnership with Freddie Schopflocher with the intention of establishing a winter school. Bill Suter, a Swiss immigrant, was appointed as the caretaker. [TG108]
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Summer schools; Beaulac, QC; Beaulac, QC | first endowment of the National Spiritual Assembbly |
1946 (In the year)
194- |
The first male Bahá'í in Edmonton, Roland McGee, arrived with his wife Anne, in 1946. [Edmonton Bahá'í History] | Roland McGee; Anne McGee; Edmonton, AB | |
1945 20 Oct
194- |
Emeric and Rosemary Sala of St. Lambert, Quebec departed on a four month tour of Central and South America. They visited 19 republics and Mr Sala gave seventy-nine talks. They visited many pioneers and paid homage at the grave of May Maxwell at Quilmes, about one hour from Buenos Aires. [TG93-101] | Emeric Sala; Rosemary Sala; May Maxwell; St. Lambert, QC; Travel Teaching | |
1945 19 Aug
194- |
Lloyd Gardner held the first public Bahá'í meeting in St. John's, NL entitled, "A Bahá'í Lecture on World Unity". [OBCC193] | Lloyd Gardner; Teaching; St. Johns, NL | |
1945 c. Mar
194- |
The establishment of the Friends of the Indians Society in Edmonton. Its
chief aims "to assist in the promotion of
better understanding and grealter cooperation between the Indians and the
Canadian people in general" and "to
aid in the establishment of the Indian
people as an important part of Canadian
society." [CBN No63 Apr 1955 p2]
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Friends of the Indians Society; Edmonton, AB | |
1945 (In the year)
194- |
Emeric Sala's book was This Earth One Country was published by Bruce Humphries Publishers in Boston. The first run was 5,000 copies. It was written with David Hofman as the intended reader in mind. [TGpXI,86, BEL7.2336]
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Emeric Sala; This Earth One Country; David Hofman | |
1944 19 - 25 May
194- |
An international celebration of the Centenary of the founding of the Faith was held at the House of Worship in Wilmette.
CANADIAN BAHÁ'Í WHO SIGNED THE 1944 CENTENNIAL COMMEMORATION REGISTER Note: The Register had been made by Charles Mason Remey. Approximately 941-971 Bahá'ís signed the Register out of the 1,484 Bahá'ís who registered for the 1944 Centennial Commemoration in Wilmette and Chicago, IL. Most Bahá'ís signed their name and put their city and state, province or country. 1. Charles N. Murray, Ottawa, Canada 2. Madeleine Humbert, Halifax, N.S. 3. Audrey Robarts, Toronto, Canada 4. Beulah S. Proctor, Halifax, N.S. 5. Doris Richardson, Toronto, Canada 6. Laura Romney Davis, Toronto 7. Ethel A. Priestly, Toronto 8. Rena Millie Gordon, Regina, Sask. 9. Siegfried Schopflocher, Montreal 10. Theresa Lillywhite, Regina, Sask. 11. Lotus Peterson, Regina, Sask. 12. Florence H. Cox, Regina, Sask. 13. Edna Colpitts, Moncton, New Brunswick 14. Anna A. McGee, Edmonton, Alta. 15. Emeric Sala, St. Lambert, Canada 16. John A. Robarts, Toronto, Canada 17. Helen Giddin, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada 18. Anita Ioas, Edmonton, Alberta 19. Winnifred Harvey, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 20. Annie B. Romer, Halifax, N.S., Canada 21. I.J. Fox, Vancouver, B.C. 22. Zara B. Phonic, Regina, Sask. [spelling of last name uncertain] 23. Edna M. Hollaway, Charlottetown, PEI 24. Muriel Hutchings, Halifax, N.S. 25. Jean Mosher, St. Lambert, Quebec 26. Maiaret Laurie (Spelling?), St. Lambert, Quebec 27. Rowland Estall, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28. Doris McKay, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island 29. Jean Johnston, Winnipeg, ManitobaList prepared from the 1944 Centennial Commemoration Register by Roger M. Dahl, National Bahá'í Archives, United States, June 24, 2021. Some of the handwriting was difficult to read so some of the names or addresses may be misspelled. |
Centenaries; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Chicago, IL | |
1944 Ridván
194- |
Canada's tenth and eleventh spiritual assemblies formed in Charlottetown, PE and Regina, SK. [OBCC178, 180] | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Regina, SK | |
1944 Ridván
194- |
Completion of the Seven-Year Plan with 9 spiritual assemblies and 39 localities. (OBCC308] | First Seven Year Plan; Statistics | |
1944 Ridván
194- |
Those elected to serve the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada were: George 0. Latimer (Chairman), Allen B. McDaniel (Vice), Horace Holley (Secretary), Louis G. Gregory (Recording Secretary), Roy C. Wilhelm (Treasurer), Dorothy Baker. Amelia E. Collins, Philip G. Sprague, Leroy loss. The Assembly appointed Siegfried Schopflocher to serve as the Treasurer of the Canadian Bahá'í Fund. [BN No 169 July 1944 p2]
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National Convention; National Spiritual Assembly, election of; Horace Holley; Louis G. Gregory; Roy C. Wilhelm; Dorothy Baker; Amelia Collins; Philip G. Sprague; Leroy Ioas; Siegfried Schopflocher; North America | |
1943 12 Nov
194- |
The Edmonton Baha'i community organized a Race Unity meeting with Muslims, Jews, Ukrainians and one Chinese in attendance. [Edmonton Bahá'í History] | Race unity; Interfaith dialogue; Edmonton, AB | |
1943 18 Jun
194- |
The passing of Mabel Rice-Wray Ives (Rizwanea) (b. in St. Louis, MI in 1878) in Oklahoma, OK. She was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery. [BW9p616]
She first heard of the Faith at the age of 21 in 1899 under miraculous circumstances. [Mabel Ives & The Mysterious Trolley Car Ride] In 1903 she married Theron Canfield Rice-Wray and they lived in California from 1909 to 1914 where her marriage ended and she returned to the East. In 1919 she met Howard Colby Ives and they married in 1920. They teamed with another couple, Grace and Harlan Ober as well as Doris and Willard McKay in both business and the teaching work, moving from one virgin territory to another.
See the story of how Mabel resolved the situation when she could no longer tolerate the itinerate lifestyle in the story When Mable Ives Could Endure No More, She Prayed . In 1937, the suggestion was made that Moncton, New Brunswick would be a fertile ground for the Cause. The Ives went. During the first six weeks of her stay, Mrs. Ives gave public lectures, radio addresses and formed a study class. She introduced the Faith to St. John, N.B., Halifax, N.S. and Charlottetown, P. E. I. Her untiring efforts, led to Moncton, NB forming the first Spiritual Assembly in the Canadian Maritimes, April 21st, 1937. In spite of Howard's failing health, they travelled to Toronto in November of 1938 for ten months to assist in the formation of Toronto's first Spiritual Assembly. Rizwanea served on that new Spiritual Assembly until she left Canada. She gave more than 150 lectures in Toronto and 70 in Hamilton, Ontario, Toronto's expansion goal. Howard, although experiencing heart problems and rapidly losing both his sight and hearing complemented her abilities by doing personal deepening with receptive souls downstairs, while she would be presenting the Teachings upstairs. See the tribute paid to her in the Canadian Bahá'í News No 202 November 1966 p4. |
Mabel Rice-Wray Ives; - In Memoriam; Moncton, NB; Halifax, NS; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Toronto, ON; Hamilton, ON | |
1943 Apr
194- |
As of this date the Edmonton Bahá'í Community had formed a Spiritual Assembly, the ninth Local Spiritual Assembly in Canada. It was composed entirely of women. [OBCC217; Edmonton Bahá'í History]
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Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Edmonton, AB | |
1943 2 Feb
194- |
Visiting Bahá'í speaker had to engagement on this day. In the afternoon he spoke to the Inter-Racial Fellowship in the George William Room at the UMCA on the topic of "Races and Equalitiy". In the evening he gave a public lecture in the Marlborough Hotel on the topic "This Earth One Country". [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p40] | Emeric Sala; Winnipeg, MB | |
1942 Sep
194- |
Ina Trimble, a widow, was the first Edmonton resident to become a Bahá'í (Edmonton Bahá'í Community 2012)." Shortly after in the same year, four people from Edmonton became Baha'is. [OBCC217; Edmonton Bahá'í History] | Edmonton, AB; Conversion | the first Edmonton resident to become a Bahá’í |
1942 Summer
194- |
A week-long summer school was held at the family farm of Paul Sala in Rivière Beaudette, QC with Dr Glen Shook as guest speaker. [TG84] | Summer schools; Paul Sala; Riviere Beaudette, QC | |
1942 c. Summer
194- |
A Winnipeg believer, Ernest Court, spent four months in Regina as part of Winnipeg's outreach program. He had frequent assistance from his home community. [BN 155 August 1942 p5] | Ernest Court; Regina, SK; Winnipeg, MB | |
1942 c. Mid-year
194- |
Evelyn Cliff of Vancouver found a teaching job in Calgary and moved there accompanied by Anne McGee, a member of the Vancouver Youth Group. In October Sylvia King relocated from Winnipeg to join Evelyn, Anne and Doris Skinner. [fBN155 August 1942 p5] | Evelyn Cliff; Anne McGee; Sylvia King; Doris Skinner; Calgary, AB; Vancouver, BC; Winnipeg, MB | |
1942 Ridván
194- |
Canada's sixth and seventh spiritual assemblies formed in Halifax, NS, Hamilton, ON. [OBCC177] | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Halifax, NS; Winnipeg, MB; Hamilton, ON | |
1942 Ridván
194- |
The first Spiritual Assembly was formed in Winnipeg, the eighth in Canada. Members were: Beth Brooks, Ernest Court, Rowland Estall, Sylvia King, Sigrun Lindal, Ernest Marsh, Stella Pollexfen, Helen Poissant, and Lillian Tomlinson (later Prosser). [OBCC227]
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Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Beth Brooks; Ernest Court; Rowland Estall; Sylvia King; Sigrun Lindal; Ernest Marsh; Stella Pollexfen; Helen Poissant; Lillian Tomlinson; Winnipeg, MB | |
1942 (In the year)
194- |
Muriel Warnicker moved to Edmonton from Vancouver and Marcia Atwater moved to Edmonton from the United States.[ OBCC217] There were only a few isolated Baha'is living in Alberta. [A.Pemberton-Pigott Thesis p8] | Muriel Warnicker; Marcia Atwater; Edmonton, AB; Vancouver, BC | |
1942 (Early in the year)
194- |
Lucille C. Gisome, a civil servant, enrolled in the Faith, probably through her friendship with Winnifred Harvey. She was an African Canadian. She was a delegate to the 1942 National Convention. [OBCC186]
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Lucille Gisome; National Convention; Winnifred Harvey; Ottawa, ON; Toronto, ON | First to enroll in the Faith in Ottawa after having learned of the Faith there. |
1942 (In the year)
194- |
Charles Nealy Murray and Grace Geary, an early pioneer to PE, participated in the first Feast held in Charlottetown, PE. [OBCC117] | Feasts; Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island | first Feast held in Charlottetown, PE. |
1942 (In the year)
194- |
Four others joined the Faith in Edmonton in 1942. [Edmonton Bahá'í History] | Edmonton, AB; Conversion | |
1942 (In the year)
194- |
In the Baha'i group in Edmonton as in other groups, it was not uncommon to find women among the first believers or "pioneers." Although there was a Baha'i group in Edmonton in 1911, apparently the Bahá'í community has been in continuous existence only since 1940. [OBCC152]
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Anne McGee; Lyda Martland; Milwyn Davies; Kay Rimell; Anita Ioas; Anita Chapman; Edmonton, AB | |
1941 29 - 31 Aug
194- |
First Summer School in Vernon, BC. Less than 20 attended. [OBBC 164,268] | Summer schools; Vernon, BC | First Summer School in Vernon, BC |
1941 3 - 9 Aug
194- |
The Spiritual Assembly of Toronto held it first annual Ontario summer school at Glen Lynden Farm, Rice Lake. 29 attended. The general theme was "Our Colossal Responsibility." They were blessed by a cablegram from Shoghi Effendi saying that he was delighted, and praying for success of the Ontario Summer Session. [TG84; BN No 149 December 1941 p6; OBCC164,268]
See photo at Worldwide Community of Bahá'u'lláh |
Summer schools; Rice Lake, ON | 1st summer school in ON |
1941 (Summer)
194- |
The war years brought an unexpected development in the Bahá'í community in Canada. Government restrictions on foreign currency exchange reduced the attendance by Canadian Bahá'ís at the Green Acre and Geyserville summer schools in the United States. After the 1941 National Convention, Rowland Estall was charged with the start—up of Bahá'í summer schools and conferences in Canada. With the financial help of Siegfried Schopfiocher, the first such gathering took place in Montreal from late June to early July of that year. A month later the Ontario Bahá'ís hosted a summer school at Rice Lake, and a summer session took place in Vernon, British Colombia. From then on summer schools became a regular feature of Canadian Bahá'í life. [BWM48-49] | Summer schools; Montreal, QC; Rice Lake, ON; Vernon, BC | |
1941 28 Jun - 2 Jul
194- |
First summer School in Canada in Montreal was held in three different homes, the Schopflochers', the Salas' and the Maxwells'. Reports of the number of people attending vary from 17 to 25 to 30. Those attending were from Montreal, St. Lambert, Moncton, Hamilton, Toronto, (among them a new believer named John Robarts), Ottawa Rouyn, and Winnipeg. Three non-Bahá'ís also attended and enrolled shortly thereafter.
The varied program provided daily talks and discussions based on the outline 'Deepening the Spiritual Life'; study of the first part of 'The Promised Day Is Come' (led by Miss Winnifred Harvey); separate talks on 'Bahá'í Administration' (Siegfried Schopflocher, Ragnar Mattson, and Lou Boudler); 'Bahá'í Attitude towards Christianity' (Mrs. Agnes King); and 'Post-War Reconstruction' (John De Mille). Lorol Schopflocher contributed an account of her journeys to Central America and the British West Indies, and Emeric and Rosemary Sala gave us stories of their experiences in Venezuela and Columbia. [OBCC268; BW9:28; TG84; BN No 149 December 1941 p5] |
Summer schools; Winnifred Harvey; Siegfried Schopflocher; Ragnar Mattson; Lou Boudler; Agnes King; John De Mille; Lorol Schopflocher; Emeric Sala; Rosemary Sala; John Robarts; Montreal, QC | First summer School in Canada in Montreal |
1941 20 Jun
194- |
The passing of Howard Colby Ives (b. 11 Oct 1867, Brooklyn, New York, d. Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA). He was buried in Pinecrest Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline County, Arkansas. [BW9p608-613; Find a grave]
Some of his works were:
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Howard Colby Ives; - In Memoriam; Mabel Rice-Wray Ives; Toronto, ON; Hamilton, ON; Travel Teaching | |
1941 Jun
194- |
Dorothy Sheets became the first Bahá'í to enroll in Calgary, AB. [OBCC184] | Dorothy Sheets; Calgary, AB | first Bahá'í to enroll in Calgary, AB. |
1941 May
194- |
Lulu Barr pioneered to Saskatoon from Hamilton where she had learned of the Faith from Mabel Rice-Wray Ives two years earlier in May 1939. She stayed for two years with no apparent results. [OBCC186] | Lulu Barr; Mabel Rice-Wray Ives; Hamilton, ON; Saskatoon, SK | |
1941 8 Apr
194- |
The passing of Urbain Joseph Ledoux (b. August 13, 1874 in Ste Hélène de Bagot, Quebec). He was buried in Saint Joseph's Cemetery
Biddeford, Maine.
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Urbain Ledoux (Mr Zero); Social action; Ste Helene de Bagot, QC; New York, USA; Boston, MA; Washington, DC, USA | |
1941 10 Jan
194- |
Emeric Sala spoke at the Marlborough Hotel again. The chair-person of that meeting was Beth Brooks, who became three months later on April 20, 1942, the seventh local believer. Her declaration was just in time to form the first Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Winnipeg. [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p18] | Emeric Sala; Winnipeg, MB | |
1941 (In the year)
194- |
Long-time Alberta resident Mabel Pine moved to Edmonton from Vermilion. [OBCC:217; Edmonton Bahá'í History]
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Mabel Pine; Vermillion, AB; Edmonton, AB | |
1940 Jun
194- |
Winnifred Harvey became the first Bahá'í to enrol in the Faith in Ottawa having learned of the Faith in Winnipeg from Rowland Estall. [OBCC185]
Originally she had been attracted to the Faith by publicity from the New History society but rejected the mixture of "truth and superstition". |
Winnifred Harvey; New History Society; Ottawa, ON; Winnipeg, MB | First to enrol in the Faith in Ottawa |
1940 Ridván
194- |
Canada's sixth spiritual assembly formed in Hamilton. It did not re-form in 1944. [OBCC177-178, UC16] | Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Hamilton, ON | |
1940 1 Mar
194- |
May Bolles Maxwell (b. 14 January 1940 in Englewood, NJ) passed away in Buenos Aires. [BBD153; TG49]
Shoghi Effendi called her "the spiritual mother of Canada" Montreal "the mother city of Canada. [OBCC35] May Maxwell, the severed teacher firebrand of the love of God and spreader of the fragrances of God Mrs Maxwell, forsook her native land and hastened to the most distant countries out of love for her Master and yearning to sound the call to the Cause of her Lord and her inspiration, until she ascended to the highest summit attaining the rank of martyrdom in the capital of the Argentine. The furthermost boundary the countenances of paradise invoke blessings upon her in the glorious apex saying, may she enjoy with healthy relish the cup that is full and brimming over with the wine of the love of God for the like of this should the travaillers travail. Inform all the friends of the announcement of this mighty victory.[A talk] given by Mr Dunbar 28:08] |
May Maxwell (Bolles); Sutherland Maxwell; Architecture; - Disciples of `Abdu'l-Bahá; - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Montreal, QC | First Bahá'í on European soil. |
1940 (in the decade)
194- |
The Baha'i group in Edmonton made contact with "liberal Christians, Theosophists, and others [A.Pemberton-Pigott Thesis p3] cited in OBCC217. | Teaching; Edmonton, AB | |
1940 (In the year)
194- |
Mary E. Fry moved to Edmonton from Vancouver. [OBCC217] | Mary Fry; Pioneer; Edmonton, AB; Vancouver, BC | |
1940 (In the year)
194- |
The Canadian Department of National Defence exempted Bahá'ís from combatant military duty. | Exemption; Recognition (legal); Military |
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