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May Bolles Maxwell

May Bolles Maxwell

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May Maxwell is regarded as “the mother of the Bahá’í community of Canada.” With her husband, William Sutherland Maxwell, she established in Montréal in 1902 the first Bahá’í community in Canada.

May Ellis Bolles was born in Englewood, New Jersey, on 14 January 1870, the daughter of John B. Bolles and Mary Martin Bolles, American in descent through many generations. Her early years were spent in the Englewood home of her maternal grandfather, who had distinguished himself in New York banking.

May Bolles first met ‘Abdu’l-Bahá on 17 February 1899, when she made a pilgrimage to Palestine with a group of American believers

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