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Messages to Canada

  • Author:
  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Canada Publications
  • Pages:
  • 276
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Page 136

Letter of 30 October 1950

30 October 1950

To James and Melba Loft1

Dear Bahá’í Friends:

1.James and Melba Loft—Mohawk and Ojibwa believers who returned to Canada from the United States to pioneer to the Tyendinaga (Mohawk) Indian Reserve, near Shannonville, Ontario, in 1949, where James passed away in 1973, and Melba in 1985. Melba was the first Canadian native believer. See The Bahá’í World Vol. XVI, 514–516, and Vol. XIX, 697–699, In Memoriam.  [ Back To Reference]