1. 2022-05. Light in All Our Lives, A: The Life and Times of Lucille Sanche Maloney. Suzanne Maloney Lebensold. The life of one of the first French-Canadian Bahá'ís, written by her daughter; a detailed portrayal of the atmosphere of the time and conditions of the Bahá'ís in the early 20th century, from Quebec to Europe, during periods of historic change. Books.
2. 2001. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada - questions. Universal House of Justice. Reply from the House of Justice to a request for a reexamination of the assumptions on which its letter to Canada of 5 September 1999 was based. UHJ-letters.
3. 1999. Messages to Canada: 1999 edition. Shoghi Effendi. Updated and expanded version of the 1965 book. Writings.
4. 1994-09-05. Broad Contours of the Canadian Baha'i Community. Will C. van den Hoonaard, Deborah K. van den Hoonaard. Historical and sociological overview of the Canadian Bahá'í community. Articles-unpublished.
5. 1987-03. Registry of Early Canadian Believers. Will C. van den Hoonaard. A report on the recent progress in developing the Registry of Early Canadian Believers, 1893-1944, an adjunct project of A Short Encyclopediaof the Bahá'í Faith. Encyclopedia.
6. 1986. Hands of the Cause of God. Universal House of Justice, Lilian Alá'í, Ray Hudson. Six documents from Bahá'í World 18 part four section 2: The Hands of the Cause of God and their functions, their work and travels 1979-1983, Boards of Counsellors and the International Teaching Centre, and tributes by Lilian Ala'i and Ray Hudson. UHJ-documents.
7. 1965. Messages to Canada. Shoghi Effendi. Writings.

1. 1941-04-08 —
   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.
   • He is believed to be the third French-Canadian to become a Bahá'í outside of Canada. [OCBB94]
   • He gave an address to the National Convention at the Hotel McAlpine on the 28th of April, 1919 entitled The Oneness of the World of Humanity. [SoW Vol 10 May 17, 1919 No 4 p58] "This talk 'sounded so French-Canadian' that later francophone believers could still be moved to tears in reading its text." [OCBB94]
   • He received widespread publicity for his opening of bread lines in New York (The Stepping Stone) in 1919, and for "auctions" of the jobless to employers in New York and Boston during the Depression of 1921. He was received by President Warren Harding shortly after arriving in Washington, D.C. in September 1921. Ledoux spent a little over three months in Washington, D.C. 1921-22 campaigning for a public works program funded by a tax on companies that made excessive war profits during World War I. His tactics included setting up a hotel housing the unemployed on Pennsylvania Avenue, an auction of the jobless, speaking before the unemployment conference, calling for the arrest of international arms conference delegates. He walked around the city carrying a white umbrella, a lighted lantern and a Bible or a copy of the Sermon on the Mount saying he was like Diogenes searching for an honest man.
   • Urbain Ledoux is shown in Boston in 1921 auctioning off an unemployed man. He conducted these auctions in New York and Boston in order to garner publicity for the plight of the unemployed and to find work for the jobless. He called himself "Mr. Zero" because he said he didn't want any publicity for himself.
   • "Mr. Zero" returned to Washington in 1932 with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, leading an unauthorized march on the White House July 16, 1932 that resulted in his arrest along with two others. The march frightened President Herbert Hoover who set in motion the eviction of the bonus marchers from the city — a move that backfired on Hoover and helped to cement his reputation as someone uncaring about the plight of the nation's unemployed. Photos. [Wikipedia]
   • Find a grave.
   • His obituary in the New York Times April 10th 1941.
   • He is reported to have "rescued" 85 year-old Sarah Farmer in Portsmouth where she was being held in a sanatorium against her will. [Boston Post 4 August 1916]
   • See a story from Ephemeral New York.
   • There is a short description of Urbain LeDoux in He Loved and Served: The Story of Curtis Kelsey p 33-34.

1. 1894-02-00 —
   Kate Ives (b.1863-d.1927) of Newfoundland parentage, who lived in Chicago, accepted the Faith in Chicago in February. She is considered the first steadfast North American Bahá'í woman. [OBCC17, 108]

   Other Canadians who accepted the Faith in Chicago were:

   • Paul K. Dealy (26 March)(from St. John, NB) [OBCC17]
   • Honoré Jaxon (18 March) [OBCC18, BFA1p90-92]
   • Dr James Oakshette (21 May) {OBCC32]
   • Aimée Montfort (wife of Honoré Jaxon) (first French-Canadian (5 October). [OBCC20]
   • Ester Rennels (87th to declare in Chicago) [OBCC34]
   • Dr James Carmichael (b. (7 October). [OBCC32]
2. 1930-00-00 — There were a few French Canadian Baha’is in Montreal by this time:
     Jeanette French, the first Francophone to become a Bahá'í in Canada circa 1920.
     Mrs Jeanne Tremblay first appeared on the Montreal membership list in 1931.
     Joseph René Roy, a chocolate maker, November of 1931.
     Mariette Bolton, (1931) sister of the above, spent most of her life in Australia.
     P Bernard Lagueux was a nephew of Archbishop Msgr Lagueux of Quebec City enrolled March 1934.
     Henri Drouin September (1934). [OBCC94-95]
3. 1941-04-08 —
   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.
   • He is believed to be the third French-Canadian to become a Bahá'í outside of Canada. [OCBB94]
   • He gave an address to the National Convention at the Hotel McAlpine on the 28th of April, 1919 entitled The Oneness of the World of Humanity. [SoW Vol 10 May 17, 1919 No 4 p58] "This talk 'sounded so French-Canadian' that later francophone believers could still be moved to tears in reading its text." [OCBB94]
   • He received widespread publicity for his opening of bread lines in New York (The Stepping Stone) and for "auctions" of the jobless to employers in New York and Boston during the Depression of 1921. He was received by President Warren Harding shortly after arriving in Washington, D.C. in September 1921. Ledoux spent a little over three months in Washington, D.C. 1921-22 campaigning for a public works program funded by a tax on companies that made excessive war profits during World War I. His tactics included setting up a hotel housing the unemployed on Pennsylvania Avenue, an auction of the jobless, speaking before the unemployment conference, calling for the arrest of international arms conference delegates. He walked around the city carrying a white umbrella, a lighted lantern and a Bible or a copy of the Sermon on the Mount saying he was like Diogenes searching for an honest man.
   • Urbain Ledoux is shown in Boston in 1921 auctioning off an unemployed man. He conducted these auctions in New York and Boston in order to garner publicity for the plight of the unemployed and to find work for the jobless. He called himself "Mr. Zero" because he said he didn't want any publicity for himself.
   • "Mr. Zero" returned to Washington in 1932 with the Bonus Expeditionary Force, leading an unauthorized march on the White House July 16, 1932 that resulted in his arrest along with two others. The march frightened President Herbert Hoover who set in motion the eviction of the bonus marchers from the city—a move that backfired on Hoover and helped to cement his reputation as someone uncaring about the plight of the nation's unemployed. Photos.
   • Find a grave.
   • His obituary in the New York Times April 10th 1941.
   • He is reported to have "rescued" 85 year-old Sarah Farmer in Portsmouth where she was being held in a sanatorium against her will. [Boston Post 4 August 1916]
   • See a story from Ephemeral New York.
   • There is a short description of Urbain LeDoux in He Loved and Served: The Story of Curtis Kelsey p 33-34.
4. 1965-07-01 — Winnifred Harvey opened the locality of Hull, QC. She moved from Eastview, ON (later Vanier and still later part of the Ottawa community). She immediately immersed herself in an intensive study of French. Hull was a major target in the development of French Canadian teaching.
5. 1968-07-10 — The passing of Mariette Germaine Roy Bolton (b. 1900 Québec) in New South Wales, Australia. She was buried in the Macquarie Park Cemetery and Crematorium North Ryde, Ryde City, New South Wales, Australia.

   Mariette G. Roy was born into a Catholic French Canadian family of farmers. In 1923 she married Stanley Bolton and the couple emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1924. She first heard of the Bahá'í Faith from the Dunns in 1925 and she and Stanley declared after meeting Keith Ransome-Kehler in 1931.

   The Bolton's moved to Detroit in the United States in 1931. Their son Stanley Jr. fell ill and was treated by a chiropractor prompting the Boltons to move to Iowa and study chiropractic at Palmer College in Davenport. They established a chiropractic practice when they returned to Sydney in 1934.

   In 1936 the Bolton's purchased land in Yerrinbool and built the first Australian Bahá'í Summer School on the property. Siegfried Schopflocher visited shortly after the first building was completed and suggested it be named 'Bolton Place'.

   The Boltons moved to Yerrinbool in 1943 and both Stanley and Mariette served on the first Yerrinbool Local Spiritual Assembly. Mariette and Stanley managed the Yerrinbool School themselves before turning over administration to the National Spiritual Assembly in 1945. They continued to serve as caretakers of the Summer School property until moving to Orange, NSW in 1963.

   Mariette and Stanley undertook a teaching trip to New Caledonia in February 1952. Her knowledge of French allowed her to teach the Faith effectively, and at least one local became a Bahá'í during her visit. They were among the first teachers to the Pacific Islands, a process which culminated in the formation of the National Spiritual Assembly of the South West Pacific Ocean, with its seat in Noumea, at Riḍván, 1971. [BN No 255 May 1952 p10; BN No 257 July 1952 p5]

   In 1953 she travelled extensively with Stanley, attending Intercontinental Teaching Conferences in Stockholm and Delhi, attending the dedication of the American House of Worship as representatives of the Australian National Spiritual Assembly, and making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. She is believed to be the only French Canadian believer to have met the Guardian.

   She was a member of the National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and New Zealand serving as secretary from 1948 until 1951.

   She made teaching trips to the United States and Canada in 1957 and 1963 when she attended the Most Great Jubilee in London in that year. Her last teaching trip abroad was in 1968 when she visited Noumea, New Caledonia a few months prior to her death on July 10. She must surely be recognized as one of the most succesful Bahá'í teachers in Australia. [OBCC100n34; Find a grave; BW15p435-437]

   There was mention make in BN #139 January 1940 p10 that she contributed an article on the Faith to the Edmonton Journal.

6. 1993-10-03 — The passing of Lucille Sanche Maloney (b. 29 December 1924 Montreal) in Pointe-Claire, QC. Lucille became a Bahá'í in January 1968 and was among the first French-Canadians to do so.

   She first heard of the Faith from an article in Ebony magazine titled Bahá'í: A way of life for millons p48-56.

   Her biography A Light in All Our Lives was written by her daughter Suzanne Maloney Lebensold.

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