Winnipeg, Manitoba

Winnipeg
City in Canada
Mural inside the Winnipeg Bahá'í Centre, titled "One Planet, One People".
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History: Firsts
-	Local Assembly	1942
How to contact:
-	Email	lsa@winnipegbahais.org
-	Address	521 McMillan Avenue Winnipeg MB R3L 0N4
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Winnipeg is the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba; the population of its metropolitan area is the eighth highest in Canada at 694,668 people.

History

Winnipeg's first permanent Bahá'í presence was established in May 1939 with the arrival of Rowland Estall, the only Bahá'ís having lived or visited there priorly being an unnamed believer (around 1910-1911), and, in a brief visit on October 30, 1926, Queen Marie of Rumania, the first Bahá'í monarch.