Montreal, being as it is the mother Assembly of the Dominion
of Canada, should receive every help and encouragement the friends can give it,
that it may grow to be at once the first and one of the largest centres of the
Faith in Canada.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 24 March 1941 written on
behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the Baha’is of Montreal; ‘Messages to Canada’)