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1941 29 - 31 Aug | First Summer School in Vernon, BC. Less than 20 attended. [OBBC 164,268] | Summer schools; Vernon, BC | First Summer School in Vernon, BC | |
1941 3 - 9 Aug | The Spiritual Assembly of Toronto held it first annual Ontario summer school at Glen Lynden Farm, Rice Lake. 29 attended. The general theme was "Our Colossal Responsibility." They were blessed by a cablegram from Shoghi Effendi saying that he was delighted, and praying for success of the Ontario Summer Session. [TG84; BN No 149 December 1941 p6; OBCC164,268]
See photo at Worldwide Community of Bahá'u'lláh] |
Summer schools; Rice Lake, ON | 1st summer school in ON | |
1941 (Summer) | The war years brought an unexpected development in the Bahá'í community in Canada. Government restrictions on foreign currency exchange reduced the attendance by Canadian Bahá'ís at the Green Acre and Geyserville summer schools in the United States. After the 1941 National Convention, Rowland Estall was charged with the start—up of Bahá'í summer schools and conferences in Canada. With the financial help of Siegfried Schopfiocher, the first such gathering took place in Montreal from late June to early July of that year. A month later the Ontario Bahá'ís hosted a summer school at Rice Lake, and a summer session took place in Vernon, British Colombia. From then on summer schools became a regular feature of Canadian Bahá'í life. [BWM48-49] | Summer schools; Montreal, QC; Rice Lake, ON; Vernon, BC | ||
1941 28 Jun - 2 Jul | First summer School in Canada in Montreal was held in three different homes, the Schopflochers', the Salas' and the Maxwells'. Reports of the number of people attending vary from 17 to 25 to 30. Those attending were from Montreal, St. Lambert, Moncton, Hamilton, Toronto, (among them a new believer named John Robarts), Ottawa Rouyn, and Winnipeg. Three non-Bahá'ís also attended and enrolled shortly thereafter.
The varied program provided daily talks and discussions based on the outline 'Deepening the Spiritual Life'; study of the first part of 'The Promised Day Is Come' (led by Miss Winnifred Harvey); separate talks on 'Bahá'í Administration' (Siegfried Schopflocher, Ragnar Mattson, and Lou Boudler); 'Bahá'í Attitude towards Christianity' (Mrs. Agnes King); and 'Post-War Reconstruction' (John De Mille). Lorol Schopflocher contributed an account of her journeys to Central America and the British West Indies, and Emeric and Rosemary Sala gave us stories of their experiences in Venezuela and Columbia. [OBCC268; BW9:28; TG84; BN No 149 December 1941 p5] |
Summer schools; Winnifred Harvey; Siegfried Schopflocher; Ragnar Mattson; Lou Boudler; Agnes King; John De Mille; Lorol Schopflocher; Emeric Sala; Rosemary Sala; John Robarts; Montreal, QC | First summer School in Canada in Montreal | |
1941 20 Jun |
The passing of Howard Colby Ives (b. 11 Oct 1867, Brooklyn, New York, d. Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA). He was buried in Pinecrest Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleum, Alexander, Saline County, Arkansas. [BW9p608-613; Find a grave]
Some of his works were:
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Howard Colby Ives; In Memoriam; Travel Teachers; Mabel Rice-Wray Ives; Toronto, ON; Hamilton, ON | ||
1941 Jun | Dorothy Sheets became the first Bahá'í to enroll in Calgary, AB. [OBCC184] | Dorothy Sheets; Calgary, AB | first Bahá'í to enroll in Calgary, AB. | |
1941 May | Lulu Barr pioneered to Saskatoon from Hamilton where she had learned of the Faith from Mabel Rice-Wray Ives two years earlier in May 1939. She stayed for two years with no apparent results. [OBCC186] | Lulu Barr; Mabel Rice-Wray Ives; Hamilton, ON; Saskatoon, SK | ||
1941 8 Apr | The passing of Urbain Joseph Ledoux (b. August 13, 1874 in Ste Hélène de Bagot, Quebec). He was buried in Saint Joseph's Cemetery
Biddeford, Maine.
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Urbain Ledoux (Mr Zero); Social action; Ste Helene de Bagot, QC; New York, USA; Boston, MA; Washington, DC, USA | ||
1941 10 Jan | Emeric Sala spoke at the Marlborough Hotel again. The chair-person of that meeting was Beth Brooks, who became three months later on April 20, 1942, the seventh local believer. Her declaration was just in time to form the first Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Winnipeg. [Bloodworth, Grains of Wheat p18] | Emeric Sala; Winnipeg, MB | ||
1941 (In the year) | Long-time Alberta resident Mabel Pine moved to Edmonton from Vermilion. [OBCC:217; Edmonton Bahá'í History]
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Mabel Pine; Vermillion, AB; Edmonton, AB | ||
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