Review – Mawlana Hazar Imam’s prior visits to Canada

We would first like to review and summarize the blog posts we made from Mawlana Hazar Imam’s prior visits to Canada.  The credit goes to ardent supporters and well wishers for sharing these exclusive material with the wider world.

Interviews, speeches, stories, photographs from the decades past visits to Canada:

• Honorary Calgarian
  • The Honorary Calgarian post shows Mawlana Hazar Imam just after landing in Calgary during his Silver Jubilee. The City’s mayor at the time, Ralph Klein, "White hatted" Imam, making Him an Honorary Calgarian by placing a white stetson on His head.
• Prince with purpose
  • Globe and Mail editorial of May 9, 1983 published approximately 1 week after the Silver Jubilee Darbar.
• November 1978 Canada visit – press clippings and related material
  • November 2008 marks the 30th anniversary of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s first official visit to Canada.  Press clippings from that earlier time.
    • The Aga Khan: A Man of His Time, from the Nov 24, 1978 edition of the Globe and Mail
    • Metro’s Muslims greet Aga Khan – The Toronto Star – November 21, 1978
      Mawlana Hazar Imam’s TV Interview on “Canada AM”
    • Banquet Speeches by His Highness the Aga Khan and government officials (photographs).
• Calgary, 1978
  • Two photographs from Calgary Nov. 1978 arrival. Hazar Imam’s first words were “it’s cold” (-17c)
• Hazar Imam’s 1978 visit to Edmonton
  • Arrival in Edmonton Canada.

…to be continued.