Mrs. May Ellis Maxwell—spiritual mother of the Canadian Bahá’í community, became a believer in 1898, visited ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in 1899 and returned to Paris to found the first Bahá’í centre on the European continent, married Sutherland Maxwell and settled in Montreal in 1902, achieved “the priceless honor of a martyr’s death” in Argentina in 1940. For a review of the vast range of her contributions to the Faith in Europe and America, see “Bahá’í World” Vol. VIII, In Memoriam.
Sutherland Maxwell and Siegfried Schopflocher.
William Sutherland Maxwell—architect of the Shrine of the Báb, appointed a Hand of the Cause of God in 1951, died in Montreal in 1952. His “saintly life” is described in “Bahá’í World” Vol. XII, In Memoriam.
Allan Raynor—member of the National Spiritual Assembly 1954–60.
Miss Mary Zabolotny (now Mrs. Kenneth McCulloch)—first pioneer to Anticosti Island (1956).
Iceland appears to have been visited first by Mrs. Amelia Collins in 1924. Miss Martha Root spent a month in Iceland in 1935.
Miss Marion Jack—“immortal heroine” and “shining example to pioneers”, who remained at her post in Sofia, Bulgaria from 1930 until her death in 1954. Her imperishable services are recorded in “Bahá’í World” Vol. XII, In Memoriam.
Allan Raynor—member of the National Spiritual Assembly 1954–60.
Allan Raynor—member of the National Spiritual Assembly 1954–60.
Miss Winnifred Harvey—member of the National Spiritual Assembly 1950–61.