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2003 Aug
200-
See the feature honouring Canada's Knights of Bahá'u'lláh both domestic and international titled Celebrating Canada's Knights of Bahá'u'lláh.. [Bahá'í Canada Vol 16 No 4 August 2003 p11-24]
Canadian Goals
Cape Breton Island
  • Fred and Jean Allen (1953) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.281-282]
  • Grace and Irving Geary (1953) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.280-281]
    Yukon
  • Joan and Ted Anderson (1953) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.255-263]
    Franklin
  • Gale and Jameson Bond (1953) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.264-268]
    Labrador
  • Howard Gilliland (1954) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.268-271]
  • Bruce Matthew (1954) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.268-271]
    St. Pierre & Miquelon
  • Ola Pawlowska (1953) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.282-283]
    Gulf Islands
  • Catherine and Cliff Huxtable (1959) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.273-276]
    Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii):
  • Edythe MacArthur (1953); [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p. 272-273]
    Grand Manan Island
  • Doris Richardson (1953) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.276-277]
    Keewatin (now part of Nunavut)
  • Richard (Dick) Stanton (1953) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.263-264]
    Magdalen Islands
  • Kathleen Weston (MacLeod Barkes) (1953) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.278]
  • Kay Zinky (1954) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.278-280]
    Anticosti
  • Mary Zabolotny (1956) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.284-285]
    Overseas Goals Filled by Canadians
    Marquesas Islands (South Pacific):
  • Greta Jankko (1954) The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.222-224]
    Bechuanaland (now Botswana):
  • Audrey, Patrick and John Robarts (1954) [The Knights of Bahá'u'lláh by Earl Redman p.109-111]
  • - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh
    2003 Ridden
    200-
    The National Convention was held at the Louis Bourgeois Bahá'í Centre in Montreal, QC. Dr. Eugene Andrews, represented the Continental Board of Counsellors.

    The following were elected to serve on the National Spiritual Assembly: Mrs. Karen McKye, Mrs. Judy Filson, Mr. Husayn Banani, Mr. Mark Wedge, Mr. Gordon Naylor, Mr. Enayat Rawhani , Mrs. Susanne Tamas, Mrs. Susan Lyons, and Mr. Donald Rogers. [BC Vol 16 no 3 July 2003 p15]

    `Abdu'l-Bahá, St James Methodist Church (Montreal, Quebec); Enayat Rawhani; Gordon Naylor; Husayn Banani; Judy Filson; Karen McKye; Mark Wedge; National Convention; National Spiritual Assembly, election of; Otto Donald Rogers; Susan Lyons; Susanne Tamas
    2003 3 Mar
    200-
    The passing of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Una Dean, née Townshend, in Edmonton, Canada. Una lived a full life of Bahá'í service. In 1946 she was the first Bahá'í in Dublin and was later a member of the first spiritual assembly. She also helped to form the first spiritual assembly in Liverpool. In October 1953 she was the first Bahá'i in Malta, a goal of the Ten Year Crusade. In 1954 she returned to Ireland to tend to her ailing father and to assist him in writing Christ and Bahá'u'lláh. After his passing in 1957 she moved to America, met and married her husband, Dick Dean, and moved to Edmonton where she served on the Local Assembly until 1987. [BW02-03p269; Find a grave] - Biographies; - In Memoriam; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Canada; Dick Dean; Dublin, Ireland; Edmonton, AB; Ireland; Liverpool, England; Malta; Una Dean; Una Townshend
    2003 Jan
    200-
    A proposal for the design for a Bahá'í temple at a site purchased by the Canadian Bahà'i Community for the potential erection of a House of Worship in Markham, Ontario was done by Susanna A. Khodarahmi-Bron as a Master's Degree project submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Design in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
  • A Temple for Canada
  • Markham, ON; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Toronto; Susanna A. Khodarahmi-Bron
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