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Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith in Canada

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Date 1943-00-00, sorted by date, descending

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1943 - 1944
194-		 Mrs. Rose Shaw, from San Francisco, in her seventies, moved to Halifax to strengthen the work in that city which had the highest concentration of Blacks in Canada at that time. She became the first Black member of the Halifax Spiritual Assembly and chose to live in the black slum area of the city, where she stayed for about a year. [Black Roses in Canada's Mosaic: Four Decades of Black History by Will C. van den Hoonaard and Lynn Echevarria-Howe; OBCCp229 Note58] - First believers by background; Halifax, NS; Rosa Shaw the first Black member of the Halifax Spiritual Assembly
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