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Messages to Canada

  • Author:

  • Shoghi Effendi

  • Source:
  • Bahá’í Canada Publications
  • Pages:
  • 276
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Page 184

Letter of 15 July 1953

[From the Guardian:]

15 July 1953

To the National Spiritual Assembly
ADVISE HOLD MAXWELL HOME BEFITTING MEMORIAL GATHERING EDDIE ELLIOT1 FIRST NEGRO CANADIAN BAHÁ’Í.

SHOGHI
1.Eddie Elliot—a childhood friend of Mary Maxwell, the first African Canadian to become a Bahá’í (1929), member of the Montreal Spiritual Assembly, died 1953.  [ Back To Reference]