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Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation for World Peace - Home
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For World Peace
Welcome to the Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation for World Peace. The Foundation, based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, traces its origins to 1988 when observances of the anniversary of Gandhi's birth were so well received by the people of Edmonton that the initiators launched plans to enlarge the annual observances, to memorialize Gandhi and to share his teachings through a national foundation to be known as the "Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation for World Peace."
Humble Beginnings
The origins of the Mahatma Gandhi Canadian Foundation for World Peace can be traced to 1988. That year, for the first time, the mayor of Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) proclaimed the week of Gandhi's birth anniversary Mahatma Gandhi Peace Week. This has since become an annual event.
Also in 1988, some of the members of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Committee (a sub-committee of the Council of India Societies of Edmonton) envisioned the establishment of an annual observation of Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2nd, and prepared a program that included a banquet honoured by the presence of the High Commissioner of India to Canada, a garlanding of the bust by the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, and a public lecture delivered at the University of Alberta by His Excellency Douglas Roche, Canada's Ambassador for Disarmament to the United Nations.
