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1922 11 Dec First formal Nineteen-day Feast held in Montreal (Feast of Questions) [OBCC159] Feast; Montreal, QC First formal Nineteen-day Feast held in Montreal and in Canada
1922 10 Dec The election of the first Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Montreal. [BW8:639, OBCC157; CBN No 82 November 1956 p2] Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Montreal, QC The election of the first Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Montreal.The first Spiritual Assembly in Canada.
1922 (Winter) Marion Jack lived in Vancouver for several months, soon a small, active community was formed. During this time Louis Gregory spent five days in the community while on his epic teaching tour in the USA. [TMW120]
  • See her mention of Western Canada in Star of the West Vol 11 No 9 p151
    		•  Louis G. Gregory; Marion Jack; Vancouver, BC
    1922 (Summer) Orcella Rexford entered the Yukon Territory from Skagway and via the White Pass Railroad arrived in Whitehorse. She held talks on the Faith to passengers aboard a stern-wheel riverboat as it travelled north. In Dawson City she lectured to some 550 people and received positive press coverage from the Dawson Daily News. [CBN No 117 Oct 1959 p1; Travel Teaching; Orcella Rexford; Skagway, AK; Whitehorse, YT; Dawson City, YT
    1922 (Summer) Marion Jack visited PE to paint at the invitation of Isander Wanda Wyatt. [OBCC110] Marion Jack; Isander Wanda Wyatt; Prince Edward Island, Canada
    1922 22 Mar William Edward Harris was a farmer who had homesteaded in the Gull Lake area (specifically Carmichael) where he and his wife (Annie E. Rehm b. 1869, Fedonia. Wis. m. 7 July, 1892, d.22 March, 1922, Carmichael, SK) had moved from North Dakota in 1908 or 1909. He was the first Bahá'í known to have lived in Saskatchewan. After his passing only his son, Edward W. Harris (b.13 March, 1902, Milwaukee, Wis. d. 17 February, 1981 Prince Rupert, BC) continued to operate the family farm with his mother. After the passing of his mother he abandoned the farm at what appeared to have been at a moment's notice taking only his clothes with him when he left. His next know address was Haysport, BC from 1950. He is believed to have lived his latter days in Prince Rupert and is buried there.
  • Beatrice Magee moved to a neighbouring farm in 1951 when she married. The Harris home was still there with its linens, furniture, books, photos and even a coffee pot on the stove. She said she would often go there and speculate why someone would walk out on a lifetime of work and memories. She admitted to "spiriting out" a large apple box full of early Bahá'í literature that she had recovered from the dirt and the bird droppings. Although she had never met this mysterious man, she would often think of him, wondering what he had been like, why he left so suddenly and what happened to him. She resolved to someday search through the box of literature and when she did, in 1978, she became a Bahá'í.
  • Another curious thing is that the gravestone of the elder Harris, (Edward William Harris (b.19 March 1871, London, England, d. 22 March, 1922, Carmichael, SK) is marked with a tombstone bearing "The Greatest Name", a Bahá'í symbol often found on the headstones of those who have followed the Faith. Where had this man learned of the Faith and how did he managed to maintain his convictions in isolation for all those years?
  • Find a grave Edward and Annie Harris.
  • Find a grave Edward Harris Jr in the Fairview Cemetery in Prince Rupert, BC.
    		•  Edward William Harris; In Memoriam; Gull Lake, SK
    1922 5 Mar Shoghi Effendi wrote that "in every locality where the number of adult declared believers exceeds nine" Assemblies should be elected. [BA37]
  • From this time forward the term "Assembly" meant a duly-elected local spiritual assembly and not a group. [BA20]
    		•  Local Spiritual Assembly
    1922 (In the year) A school teacher, Mrs Dora Bray of Dawson, YT was the first Yukon resident and the first African Canadian woman to enroll in the Faith. She did so as a result of the visit of Marion Jack and Emogene Hoagg. [OBCC123] Dora Bray; Marion Jack; Emogene Hoagg; Dawson City, YT the first Yukon resident to enroll in the Faith; the first African Canadian woman to enroll in the Faith

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