- 1908-05-22 — Thornton Chase was the first Bahá'í to visit Victoria, BC. [OBCC34]
- 1920-06-00 — The arrival of well-known Bahá'í scholar and travel teacher Jináb-i-Fádil accompanied by Ahmad Sohrab. They travelled with Marion Jack and Martha Root and visited Saint John, NB, Montreal, QC, Gagetown, PE, Woodstock, NB, Brockville, ON, Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC and Victoria, BC. [SoW 20Aug1920, OBCC193]
- 1937-00-03 — The Vancouver community developed a series of 12-minute radio programs broadcast on CJOR radio. The subject was "World Order". Along with an accompanying brochure on the 12 principles and study classes for the public, the program attracted from forty-five to sixty interested persons. The programs were heard in Victoria, Comox, Armstrong and Vernon. [OBCC215]
- 1948-02-01 — 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 - 1953-10-00 — Florence Mayberry of Santa Paula, California made a tour of Western Canada with stops in Victoria, Vernon, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Calgary, Regina, Moose Jaw and Brandon. [CBN No 47 December, 1953 p4]
- 1958-12-16 — The government of British Columbia issued the first certificate of Registration under the Marriage Act which certified that the Chairman of the Local Spiritual Assembly was legally authorized to solemnize marriage. [CBN No 109 February 1959 p4]
- 1970-01-12 —
An animated presentation entitled "The Community of Baha'u'llah" made its initial presentation at the Art Centre in Ottawa. They had just come from their trial run in St. Lambert, Quebec and had a plan to visit Oshawa, Hamilton, Guelph, North Bay, Fort William (Thunder Bay), Winnipeg, Brandon, Regina, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Kelowna, Vancouver, Nanaimo and Victoria before doing their final presentation in Toronto just before the National Convention.
- The hosts for the presentation were: Al Houdek, Gerry Bourassa; Leslie Houdek, Sandra Kostaschuk, Garry Berteig; Larry Brown, and Valerie Berteig with Dick Stanton as the Tour Manager.
- Travelling exhibit was intended as a vehicle to introduce the Message of Baha'u'llah. They utilized film, sound and slides, as well as traditional art forms. The plan was to have the local communities integrate interested person into the community after the team had made the initial contact. The eight member team made the three month trip in two vehicles, an Econoline van and a station wagon. [CBN No 236 January-February 1970 BE 126 p1]
- The tour continued into the Maritimes for several more months with some changes in the team to include Gale Bundy, Fred Ward, and Bob Kingdon. The tour ended at Rochdale College in Toronto. [email exchange with Garry Berteig 4 January 2020] iiiii
- 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.
- 2020-06-02 —
The passing of Hossain Banadaki Danesh in Victoria, BC
- His major publications were:
- The Violence Free-Society: A Gift for Our Children. Bahá'í Studies. Vol. 6. 1979.
- Unity: The Creative Foundation of Peace. Bahá'í Studies Publications, Ottawa 1986.
- The Psychology of Spirituality. Paradigm Publishing, Manotick, Ontario 1994.
- The Violence Free Family. Building Block of a Peaceful Civilization. Bahá'í Studies Publications, Ottawa, Canada 1995.
- Conflict-Free Conflict Resolution (CFCR): Process and Methodology. with Roshan Danesh. Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall. (March 21, 2004).
- Unity of Faith and Reason in Action 2010.
- The Unity-Based Family. An Empirical Study of Healthy Marriage, Family, and Parenting. H.B. Danesh, MD, FRCP(C), with Azin Nasseri, PhD. Cambridge Scholars Publishing; 1 edition (1 April 2017). It was illustrated by Katia Breton.
- The Mysterious Case of the IWs: A Story to Help Children Cope with Death
Published by Efp-International Press (April 16 2012).
- For a more complete list see his website.
- Documents by Hossain Danesh on Bahai-library.com.
- YouTube.
- See His website.
- See article by his son Roshan Danesh about the passing of his father and his son. [Times Colonist 30 July 2020] iiiii
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