1979-04-21 — The National Convention was held 26-29 April 1979 in Guelph,ON. [Bulletin No7 March 1979}. No information on the election of the National Assembly was published in the Bulletin (at that time the name of CBN/BC).
However, the following person were members of the 1978 and the 1980 Assemblies: Jameson Bond, Glen Eyford, Husayn Banani, Hossain Danesh, Michael Rochester, Edmund Muttart, Elizabeth Rochester, Ruth Eyford, and Douglas Martin.
1990-09-05 — The passing of Emeric Sala (Emereich Szalvetz ) (b.12 November, 1906 in Havas Dombrovitza, Hungary (later Romania)). He was buried in Royal Oak Burial Park Cemetery in Victoria, BC. [BW Vol. XX p993-995; Find a grave]
He was a founding member of the Montreal Youth Group along with Rowland Estal and George Spendlove, the first organized youth class in the Western Hemisphere. From that youth group came a Hand of the Cause of God, a member of the Universal House of Justice, two members of the Continental Board of Counsellors, three members of National Spiritual Assemblies, and the authors of three Bahá'í books.
He and Siegfried Schopflocher were instrumental in purchasing and developing the first Canadian Bahá'í property at Beaulac, north of Montreal.
In 1940 he and his wife Rosemary pioneered for one year to Venezuela and served as travelling teachers throughout South America.
In 1945 he published This Earth One Country. He wrote about such revolutionary concepts as a "planetary economy", "a supranational community" and a "world plan". [TG86-92]
Both he and Rosemary were elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada when it was formed in 1948 and served until they pioneered in 1953.
In 1953 they tried to pioneer to the Comoro Islands but could not get residential status from the French government so they settled in Eshowe Zululand, now South Africa where they were involved in commercial trading. When the government would not renew their licence to trade they moved to Port Elizabeth.
They returned to Canada briefly in 1963 and pioneered to Guadalajara, Mexico and travelled extensively throughout Central America. Rosemary died at her post in February of 1980.
In 1980 he married his second wife, Donya, and together they travelled through the Americas, China, India and Europe. [BW20 p993-995; Bahá'ís of Canada]
His biography and that of his wife Rosemary, Tending the Garden was written by his niece Ilona Sala Weinstein. It was published in 2016 by One Voice Press of Essex, MD. This publication is also available in the e-book format.
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