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1942 (In the year) |
Charles Nealy Murray and Grace Geary, an early pioneer to PE, participated in the first Feast held in Charlottetown, PE. [OBCC117] |
Charlottetown, PE |
Feast |
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1943. 18 Jun |
The passing of Mabel Rice-Wray Ives (Rizwanea) (b. in St. Louis, MI in 1878) in Oklahoma, OK. She was buried in Memorial Park Cemetery. [BW9p616]
She first heard of the Faith at the age of 21 in 1899 under miraculous circumstances. [Mabel Ives & The Mysterious Trolley Car Ride]
In 1903 she married Theron Canfield Rice-Wray and they lived in California from 1909 to 1914 where her marriage ended and she returned to the East. In 1919 she met Howard Colby Ives and they married in 1920. They teamed with another couple, Grace and Harlan Ober as well as Doris and Willard McKay in both business and the teaching work, moving from one virgin territory to another.
See the story of how Mabel resolved the situation when she could no longer tolerate the itinerate lifestyle in the story When Mable Ives Could Endure No More, She Prayed .
In 1937, the suggestion was made that Moncton, New Brunswick would be a fertile ground for the Cause. The Ives went. During the first six weeks of her stay, Mrs. Ives gave public lectures, radio addresses and formed a study class. She introduced the Faith to St. John, N.B., Halifax, N.S. and Charlottetown, P. E. I. Her untiring efforts, led to Moncton, NB forming the first Spiritual Assembly in the Canadian Maritimes, April 21st, 1937.
In spite of Howard's failing health, they travelled to Toronto in November of 1938 for ten months to assist in the formation of Toronto’s first Spiritual Assembly. Rizwanea served on that new Spiritual Assembly until she left Canada. She gave more than 150 lectures in Toronto and 70 in Hamilton, Ontario, Toronto’s expansion goal. Howard, although experiencing heart problems and rapidly losing both his sight and hearing complemented her abilities by doing personal deepening with receptive souls downstairs, while she would be presenting the Teachings upstairs.
See the tribute paid to her in the Canadian Bahá'í News No 202 November 1966 p4.
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Moncton, NB; Halifax, NS; Charlottetown, PE; Toronto, ON; Hamilton, ON |
Mabel Rice-Wray Ives; In Memoriam |
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1944 Ridván |
Canada's tenth and eleventh spiritual assemblies formed in Charlottetown, PE and Regina, SK. [OBCC178, 180] |
Charlottetown, PE; Regina, SK, |
Local Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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1953 |
It was reported that with the arrival of Fran Bachynski in Charlottetown they had a sufficient number to complete their Assembly. [CBN No42 July 1953 p4] |
Charlottetown, PE |
Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Fran Bachynski |
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1954 (Early in the year) |
Florence Mayberry made a tour of Eastern Canada with stops in Bellville, Kingston, Montreal, St Lambert, Westmount, Quebec City, Charlottetown, Ingersoll, Hamilton, and Peterborough. [CBN No 51 April, 1954 p5] |
Bellville, ON; Kingston, ON; Montreal, QC; St Lambert, QC; Westmount, QC; Quebec City, QC; Charlottetown, PE; Ingersoll, ON; Hamilton, ON; Peterborough, ON |
Florence Mayberry; Travel Teaching |
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1954. 21 Apr |
Bruce Matthew came to Canada in 1951 from Scotland via Hertfordshire and moved to Toronto in 1953 where he encountered the Faith after responding to a newspaper in The Toronto Star. The advertisement was for a talk by Laura Davis at a public meeting at the Bahá'í Centre. Willing to go "anywhere" he was asked to move to Goose Bay, NF and arrived on the 21st of April, 1954, the deadline established by Shoghi Effendi for being named a Knight of Bahá’u’lláh by Shoghi Effendi. Bruce has an interesting story of his miraculous healing just prior to his boarding the plane for Goose Bay. [KoB270-271]
During the time he spent there, from April 1954 to January 1956, Bruce worked at the hospital and later as a court reporter for the United States Air Force until his job was phased out.
In consultation with the Goals Committee, Bruce pioneered to Charlottetown, PE, then St. John’s, NF, and Windsor, ON. The Goals Committee then suggested that Bruce go to Moncton, NB, and he finally settled in the community of Alliston, ON, north of Toronto. [CBN Vol4 Issue 2 Jun 1991 p11; KoB271; BW13p453] |
Goose Bay, NF; Charlottetown, PE; St John; s, NF; Windsor, ON; Moncton, NB |
Bruce Matthew; Knight of Bahaullah |
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1954. 14 Jul |
The first Bahá'í wedding in Charlottetown
took place on July 14, when
Muriel Sheppard and Elwood McLeod
were united in marriage by Rowland
Estall. They spent a nine-day honeymoon
on the Magdalen Islands, where
they were able to make some friends
and visit Mrs. Kay Zinky, the pioneer
there. [CBN No56 Sep 1954 p5] |
Charlottetown, PE |
Marriage; Muriel Sheppard; Elwood McLeod |
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1954. 9 Oct |
More than 20 believers attended the Maritime Fall Conference held in Charlottetown. Mrs. Peggy Ross of Scarboro highlighted
the conference, the theme being
"Augmenting the Dynamic Spirit in the
Ten-Year Crusade". She discussed bridging
the gap between thought and action,
saying that a living sacrifice is required
these days to prevent giving in to
inertia. "Action towards what we believe
in is like food in the hands of
starving people." She discussed taking
on the ways of the new Kingdom by
learning the manners and customs of the Faith. [CBN No58 Nov 1954 p3] |
Charlottetown, PE |
Maritime Fall Conference; Peggy Ross |
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1959. 20 Jun |
The passing of Ernest Vernon Harrison (b. 22 November, 1880 in Bengal, India) in Charlottetown.
He had immigrated to Montreal by way of Nigeria and the Sudan where he had worked on railway projects. He arrived with his wife Amy and their two children, a boy and a girl.
He associated with the Bahá'í community for a number of years from 1916 but did not make a commitment. In 1921 while on his way to California, he stopped briefly in Wilmette and met with so much loving kindness that he could not sleep. That summer he wrote to 'Abdu'l-Bahá and received a Tablet from Him dated the 16th of August 1921. In five years time he accepted the Faith and became active.
In December, 1925 he delivered an address in the same church as 'Abdu'l-Bahá had spoken in 1912. [BN No 10 February 1926 p8] |
Charlottetown, PE |
Ernest Harrison; In Memoriam |
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1959 (Late summer) |
Douglas and Elizabeth Martin travelled to the Maritimes to introduce the Promulgation Campaign. The Bahá'ís of Halifax, Charlottetown and Saint John participated in the project and over 2,000 letters were sent out from these three centres during the first week of September. Winston Evans, from Nashville, once again participated as a speaker at the meetings. [CBN No 117 October 1959 p4; UC96] |
Halifax, NS; Charlottetown, PE; Saint John, NB |
Proclamation I; Promulgation Campaign; Douglas Martin; Elizabeth Martin |
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1991. Ridván |
Delegates to Canada's 43rd annual National
Convention, held in Charlottetown, PE, have
elected the members of the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Canada.
The nine members are Husayn Banani,
Hossain Danesh, Margot Leonard, Ed Muttart,
Reggie Newkirk, Louise Profeit-LeBlanc, Enayat
Rawhani, Michael Rochester, and Ann Wilson.
The Canadian Bahá'í community elected
171 delegates at the Unit Conventions, as instructed by the Universal House of Justice. Of
the 171 delegates, 164 cast ballots to elect the
National Assembly. Of the 164, 155 cast their
ballots in person at the Convention. Canada's 43rd annual National Convention will
be remembered for many reasons, but especially
for its focus on teaching French Canadians and
Natives. [BC Vol 4 No 2 June 1991 P3] |
Charlottetown, PE |
National Convention; National Spiritual Assembly, election of; Husayn Banani;
Hossain Daneshi; Margot Leonardi; Ed Muttart;
Reggie Newkirki; Louise Profeit-LeBlanci; Enayat
Rawhani; Michael Rochester; Ann Wilson |
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1992. 11 Nov |
The passing of Doris McKay (b. Doris Henrietta Hill 29 September, 1894) in Charlottetown.
She married Willard Judd McKay 30 June 1923. In 1925 she and Willard attended a fireside given by Howard and Mabel Ives. In 1929 she made her fist travel teaching trip to New York, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Boston, Portsmouth and to Montreal. She was a frequent lecturer at Green Acre. In 1939 she returned to Canada to staff the Bahá'í booth at the Canadian National Exhibition and to visit communities in Hamilton, Montreal and Moncton where she took up residence in 1942. In the fall of 1943 they moved to Prince Edward Island to help win a goal of the Seven Year Plan by establishing a local spiritual assembly in Charlottetown.
In 1928 while still a resident in the US and a member of the Outline Bureau of the National Teaching Committee she developed "36 Lessons", some of the first deepening materials and study outlines for the American believers. She was a contributor to the Star of the West and later The Bahá'í World.
Her autobiography Fire in Many Hearts, written with Paul Vreeland, was published in 1991 by Nine Pines Publishing and was republished by George Ronald under a new title Fires in Many Hearts - Memoirs of an early American believer. [BWIM30-32] |
Charlottetown, PE; Montreal, QC; Moncton, NB; Hamilton, ON; Toronto, ON |
In Memoriam; Doris McKay; Fire in Many Hearts |
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