With Bahá’í love,
R. Rabbani
[From the Guardian:]
Dear and valued co-workers:
I was so pleased and cheered to learn of the progress of
your highly meritorious labours, and feel deeply grateful for
the sentiments you have expressed. I wish to assure you of my
special prayers for the steady extension of your activities to
which I attach great importance, and for the future of which I
cherish the brightest hopes. May the Beloved bless bountifully
Bahá’ís of Montreal, Quebec, c. 1930
First Bahá’í Spiritual Assembly in the Maritimes, Moncton, New Brunswick, 1938
Seated: J. H. King, Irving Geary, William Byrne
Standing: Alma Fairweather, Agnes King, Berford Stevens,
Ruth Wilson, Mark McEwen, Grace Geary
First Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1941
Seated: Stella Pollexfen, Lillian Tomlinson, Sylvia King, Sigrun Lindal
Standing: Ernest Court, Helen Poissant, Rowland Estall,
Beth Brookes, Ernest Marsh
Lorol Schopflocher
Beulah Proctor
Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1941
Participants at the Bahá’í summer session held at Rice Lake,
Ontario, 1941
Participants at a Bahá’í summer conference at the Schopflocher
home in Montreal, Quebec, 1942
Edythe MacArthur and friend
at Rice Lake, Ontario, 1944
Howard Colby Ives and
Mabel Rice-Wray Ives
Eddie Elliot, first black
Bahá’í in Canada, c. 1930
First Canadian Teaching Committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada, 1946
Seated: Laura Davis, Doris Richardson
Standing: Siegfried Schopflocher, John A. Robarts, Victor Davis, Rowland
Estall, Emeric Sala
First Canadian Bahá’í National Convention of the
Bahá’ís of Canada,
pictured behind the Maxwell home, Montreal, Quebec, 1948
First National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Canada, 1948
Front: Rosemary Sala, Fred Schopflocher, Laura Davis, Ross Woodman,
John A. Robarts
Back: Emeric Sala, Rowland Estall, Doris Richardson, Lloyd Gardner
Laura Davis, Secretary of the first
National Spiritual Assembly of
the Bahá’ís of Canada
Ola Pawlowska
First Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Ottawa, Ontario, 1948
Seated: Francoise Rouleau, Katharine Ferguson, Winnifred Harvey,
Gladys Young
Standing: Charles Murray, Marion Frederick, Ken MacLaren, Edna
Hughes, Irving Frederick (Photographer: William Lingard, Ottawa)
First Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Calgary, Alberta, 1949
Front: Jerry Stachow, Noel Wuttunee
Back: Millie Ogston, Doris Skinner, Edythe MacArthur,
Greta Christopherson, unknown, Dorothy Sheets
Not shown: Douglas Wilson (photographer)
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 1949
Front: Christine McKay, Edna Hollowell, Irving Geary,
Daisy Lyle, Grace Geary
Back: Jameson Bond, Marjory Patterson, Doris McKay,
Willard McKay
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Toronto, Ontario, c. 1949
From left: Virginia Young, Charles Roberts, George Keith-Beattie, Victor
Davis, Laura Davis, Lloyd Gardner, Mabel Aslett, Inez Hayes, Peggy Ross
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Hamilton, Ontario, c. 1949
Seated: Dorothy Clarke Boys Smith, Hazel Cuttriss,
Frances Young, Amelia Clarke
Standing: William MacGregor, Gertrude Barr, Amy Putnam,
Nancy Campbell, Arthur Lehman
Bahá’í Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, 1949
Marion Jack in Bulgaria
John A. and Audrey Robarts and
children Nina, Patrick, Gerald
and Aldham, c. 1950
(courtesy of Nina Robarts Tinnion)
Jameson and Gale Bond, 1953
Emeric and Rosemary Sala in Zululand, c. 1954
Shrine of the Báb,
Haifa, Israel, c. 1954
your high endeavours and assist you to further effectively the
vital and manifold interests of His Faith,
Your true and grateful brother,
Shoghi
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