Winnipeg, Manitoba

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Mural inside the Winnipeg Baha'i Centre, titled "One Planet, One People".
Mural inside the Winnipeg Baha'i Centre, titled "One Planet, One People".

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[1].


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[edit] History

Winnipeg's first permanent Baha'i presence was established in May 1939 with the arrival of Rowland Estall, the only Baha'is having lived or visited there priorly being an unnamed believer (around 1910-1911)[2], and, in a brief visit on October 30, 1926, Queen Marie of Rumania[2], the first Baha'i monarch.

[edit] Contact

Winnipeg Baha'i Centre
521 McMillan Avenue
Winnipeg MB R3L 0N4
Email: lsawinnipeg[at]elsewhere.ca

[edit] References

  1. ↑ Canada 2006 Census: Population and dwelling counts, for census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations, Statistics Canada. Retrieved on 2007-09-16.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Will C. Van den Hoonaard, The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada, 1898-1948, p.120

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