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Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith in Canada

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Date 1925-07-04, sorted by date, descending

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1925 4 Jul - 9 Jul
192-		 The Seventeenth Annual Convention of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada was held at Green Acre. [GAP117; SBR94]
  • National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada was elected for the first time. [GPB333, SETPE1p107]
  • Like the previous attempts at electing a National Assembly in 1922, 1923 and 1924, the delegates didn't fully understand the Bahá'í election procedure. Nine members were elected as well as nine alternates whose purpose was to replace absent members at meetings. [SETPE1p108]
  • The members were: Alfred Lunt, Harry Randall, May Maxwell, George Latimer, Louis Gregory, Elizabeth Greenleaf, Mariam Haney and Keith Ransom-Kehler with Horace Holley becomes its first full-time secretary. [BW13:852; SBR233, SETPE1p108]
 Alfred Lunt; Elizabeth Greenleaf; George Latimer; Green Acre, Eliot, ME; Horace Holley; Keith Ransom-Kehler; Louis G. Gregory; Mariam Haney; May Maxwell (Bolles); National Spiritual Assembly; National Spiritual Assembly, election of; William Harry Randall National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada was elected for the first time.
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