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oss--member of the National Spiritual Assembly 1954-63, appointed a member of the Auxiliary Board for Teaching in 1958. 58 Ahmad Sohrab--former secretary of 'Abdu'l-Baha, declared a Covenant-breaker by the Guardian, died 1958. 59 Miss Greta Jankko--first pioneer to the Marquesas Islands (1954). 60 William Carr--Canadian pioneer to Thule Air Base, Greenland 1955-. From 1955 to 1963 Mrs. Kaya Holck, a Danish believer, pioneered among the Greenlanders. 61 Miss Mary Zabolotny (now Mrs. Kenneth McCulloch)--first pioneer to Anticosti Island (1956). 62 The Tablets of the Divine Plan, revealed by 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1916-17, and addressed severally to the Baha'is of the United States and Canada, constitute the authority for the successive Plans inaugurated by the Guardian for the spread of the Faith and the establishment of its Institutions throughout the world. 63 Mrs. May Ellis Maxwell--spiritual mother of the Canadian Baha'i community, became a believer in 1898, visited 'Abdu'l-Baha in 1899 and returned to Paris to found the first Baha'i 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 "Baha'i World" Vol. VIII, In Memoriam. ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MESSAGES TO CANADA*** CREDITS June 2006 Converted from Microsoft Word document format to TEI master format. Joshua Hutchinson A WORD FROM PROJECT GUTENBERG This file should be named 19278.txt or 19278.zip. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/9/2/7/19278/ Updated editions will replace the previous one -- the old editions will be renamed. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project Gutenberg{~TRADE MARK SIGN~} electronic works to protect the Project Gutenberg{~TRADE MARK SIGN
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