Messages to Canada by Shoghi Effendi Edition 1, (September 2006) BAHA’I TERMS OF USE You have permission to freely make and use copies of the text and any other information ("Content") available on this Site including printing, emailing, posting, distributing, copying, downloading, uploading, transmitting, displaying the Content in whole or in part subject to the following: 1. Our copyright notice and the source reference must be attached to the Content; 2. The Content may not be modified or altered in any way except to change the font or appearance; 3. The Content must be used solely for a non-commercial purpose. Although this blanket permission to reproduce the Content is given freely such that no special permission is required, the Bahá’í International Community retains full copyright protection for all Content included at this Site under all applicable national and international laws. For permission to publish, transmit, display or otherwise use the Content for any commercial purpose, please contact us (http://reference.bahai.org/en/contact.html). CONTENTS Baha’i Terms of Use THE GUARDIAN’S FIRST LETTER TO CANADA. 1923 THE GUARDIAN’S FIRST LETTER TO CANADA. 1923 THE BIRTH OF THE INDEPENDENT CANADIAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY AND THE FIVE YEAR PLAN. 1948–53 THE BIRTH OF THE INDEPENDENT CANADIAN BAHÁ’Í COMMUNITY AND THE FIVE YEAR PLAN. 1948–53 Letter of April 14, 1948 ELECTION OF FIRST NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF FIVE YEAR PLAN Letter of November 4, 1948 AVOID BLANKET RULINGS IMPLICATIONS OF PLAN TREMENDOUSLY VAST EXECUTION OF THE PLAN (Cablegram) May 1949 INCORPORATION OF NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BY PARLIAMENT ACCLAIMED Letter of June 19, 1949 FIRST GOVERNMENT TO RECOGNIZE OFFICIAL STATUS OPERATION OF THE PLAN GATHERS MOMENTUM Letter of June 23, 1950 SETTLEMENT OF PIONEERS IN NEWFOUNDLAND TEACHING THE CANADIAN INDIANS A GREATER UNANIMITY IN SACRIFICE REQUIRED Letter of January, 1951 SHRINE OF THE BÁB Letter of March 1, 1951 CONTACT WITH ARCTIC ESKIMOS STIRRING EXAMPLE OF BRITISH PIONEERS FUTURE OF CANADA VERY GREAT IMPERISHABLE RECORD OF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE CO-HEIR OF THE TABLETS OF THE DIVINE PLAN Letter of October 30, 1951 PIONEER TO GREENLAND CRITICAL FINAL PHASE OF FIVE YEAR PLAN UNUTTERABLY PRECIOUS OPPORTUNITY Letter of June 8, 1952 CHARLOTTETOWN MUST BE MAINTAINED LAURENTIAN BAHÁ’Í SCHOOL HAZÍRATU’L-QUDS TO BE ESTABLISHED HAND OF THE CAUSE SUTHERLAND MAXWELL Letter of September 19, 1952 CANADA’S PART IN THE TEN YEAR WORLD SPIRITUAL CRUSADE. 1953–57 CANADA’S PART IN THE TEN YEAR WORLD SPIRITUAL CRUSADE. 1953–57