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2003 3 Mar
200-
The passing of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Una Dean, née Townshend, in Edmonton, Canada. Una lived a full life of Bahá'í service. In 1946 she was the first Bahá'í in Dublin and was later a member of the first spiritual assembly. She also helped to form the first spiritual assembly in Liverpool. In October 1953 she was the first Bahá'i in Malta, a goal of the Ten Year Crusade. In 1954 she returned to Ireland to tend to her ailing father and to assist him in writing Christ and Bahá'u'lláh. After his passing in 1957 she moved to America, met and married her husband, Dick Dean, and moved to Edmonton where she served on the Local Assembly until 1987. [BW02-03p269; Find a grave] Una Dean; Una Townshend; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; - In Memoriam; Dick Dean; Edmonton, AB; Canada; Malta; Ireland; Liverpool, England; Dublin, Ireland; Biography
2003 Jan
200-
A proposed design for a Bahá'í temple at a site purchased by the Canadian Bahà'i Community for the potential erection of a House of Worship in Markham, Ontario was done by Susanna A. Khodarahmi-Bron as a Master's Degree project submitted to the Faculty of Environmental Design in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
  • A Temple for Canada (PDF)
  • Temple Project; Susanna A. Khodarahmi-Bron; Markham, ON
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