May Ellis Maxwell -- spiritual mother of the Canadian Bahá'í community became a believer in 1898, visited
‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Haifa 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 honour” of a “martyr’s Death” in
Argentina in 1940. (Footnotes in ‘Messages to Canada’)
