November 20

[May Maxwell] whom posterity will regard, not only as the mother both of the Canadian Bahá’í Community and of the first Bahá’í centre established on the European continent but also as one of the foremost pioneers and martyrs of the Faith…
- Shoghi Effendi  (Post script to a letter dated 8 June 1952 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the Canadian National Spiritual; ‘Messages to Canada’)