Edith Magee
Edith Magee was the first Canadian to declare her belief in Bahá’u’lláh, in 1898. Her first exposure to the Baha'i Faith was around the age of seventeen, presumably while on one of many trips to visit her uncle, Guy Magee, a prominent journalist from Chicago who had covered the World's Parliament of Religions in 1893.[1] Moojan Momen, in reviewing The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 by Will Van den Hoonaard, notes the following:
the Magee family... are credited with bringing the Bahá’í Faith to Canada. Edith Magee became a Bahá’í in 1898 in Chicago and returned to her home in London, Ontario, where four other female members of her family became Bahá’ís. This predominance of women converts became a feature of the Canadian Bahá’í community...[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ Van den Hoonaard, Will. The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948. pp. p. 1, 21.
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