Baha'i African Canadian American Enrolled in Toronto Canada 21 April 1955 was a postman.

Material Designation: [Audio-Cassette]
Researcher: Diana Braithwaite
Place: 24 McCowan Raod, Scarborough, Ontario M1M 3L9:
Producer/Organizer: MHSO
Date: May 25, 1982/June 28, 1982
Arrival: 1920s?
Size: 2 Tape ; 1 hour and 50 Minutes (60 minute tape)
Language: English
Note: Mat Submission Report No.: BLA-10925-CAR No. P/D
Class Number: BLA-7984-CAR
Reference Number:BLA-10925-CAR
Keywords: Carty, Donald / Africans-Canada-Interviews/
Immigrants-Canada-Interviews
Interviewer: Diana Braithwaite (DB)

Excerpt from an interview https://donaldcartyinterviewtranscription.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/donald-carty-in/

DB: What about your involvement in the Baha'I community?

DC: What is it first of all? Well the Baha'i faith is a world religion. That acknowledges that there is but one God and really one religion when you start to think that the teachings of all the other major religions are the exponent of the same thing. The only differences between religions are those that are manmade because I think it's fundamental between the religions of the world that they all seek the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of all men. Although, religions have been a great unifying factor. For some peoples they've also been a great destroyer in that they have taken the extension of the – under the guise of religion so much has been done. Take the early conquest of Canada. Priests came out and, in my mind, softened the people by taking the converts and the traders followed in behind them and they'd send out their armies to protect the trade routes there. The country was lost. The native pursued the Bible and he lost his land; he lost his country. This is virtually the same thing that happened in Africa following the guise of helping these poor people. They don't give a damn what happened to them as long as their soul was saved, you know. Under the guise of religion too they thought of you as – it's always warped to satisfy and protect the sense of guilt of the perpetrator of these crimes against humanity. They dismiss the Black man as being a bearer of wood and carrying the water and they justified this with the Bible. They took the story of Ham who was supposedly turned black because he was evil and they say, "Oh, Black men are the children of Ham". But you know, people can so easily hide behind their prejudices and apply religion as the salve to justify their ends.

I was attracted to the Baha'i faith because it went beyond the limitations of religions that said- well we are the one and only and despised all others. I accepted it because I found that it was not merely a dogma but I found people attempting to live within the frameworks of their teachings. It was attractive to me because I found that it inspired people to their nobility as a human being where others say that you were born in sin and that you have to climb to acceptance. We would make people aware that they were created nobly and if they debase themselves it is because they have the will to do so. I think that to me this is a more nobler concept in which you can accept yourself and accept the rest of humanity. A noble faith that embraces virtually every country of the world. The administrative headquarters and spiritual centre is in Israel . Haephas(Haifa) The president of the Persian garden at Mount Carmon(Carmel). It is the outgrowth of the Muslim teachings in the same way that in the same way that Christianity is the outgrowth of the Judaic teachings. I think that looking into the history of all the religions that one – if you look at the basic essence tends to say that there will be a revealing that will come that will bring humanity to all truth. The important thing is that we be able to recognise this. When you think of this as being carried up by the cloud into a new heavenly kingdom; I see it from purely the practicality of that there's a change, a new world. I see it in terms of a change of attitudes and minds. Your heaven is where you make of heaven; your hell is where you make it. I don't dismiss the fact that we are a multi-dimensional creature. We presently know the physical plain and I feel that if we believe in God then it must be spiritual dimension of reality. We can only cope with these things if we bond out of this plain so I don't worry about that which I don't have to counter. I hope to see it in terms of the reality of relationships of people and recognition of the attributes that would ennoble man such as understanding love and compassion and these things. I was particularly attracted to the social attributes of the religions which advocated the oneness of all men, the equality of men and women. To acknowledge that a woman has a profound role in the family and at one point infers that if there's a preference of education going to the male or female, the woman should have the preference in view of the fact that she is responsible for the child for the most of that child's growing up. I suppose if you've got a well-educated mother at a very early age she can bring about a tremendous impact on that child's life not only in terms of social education but even academically. Some mothers have done a tremendous job in equipping children more admirably than the regimented, sometimes very bigoted institutions of learning.

To fail to acknowledge that we all do have a role, to acknowledge that we've got one humanity, that this should be a world economy, this should be a standardised weights and measures system. We can't separate spiritual well-being from the application in terms of our everyday life. If your religion in no way reflects on your attitudes and you relationship to your fellow man, if it is only a thing in which you make a Sunday afternoon testimony then you forget it totally, then it's a waste of time. It's only a bit like the old expression – unless your deeds equal your words. We don't need something to escape into- we admittedly as we evolve I suppose. It is so important that man have a sense of belonging to something beyond or greater than themselves. I suppose there have been countless examples all down the line of history – a preoccupation with that there must be something after this life. There's been so many books on the market by remarks of people who claim that they've gone to that twilight zone or they've experienced it, this wishing to honour their lives. But so much for that.
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Five brothers not only served Canada during the Second World War, but defied the odds to become accomplished airmen.
The Carty brothers

Military service was in the Carty family blood. Five brothers from the Saint John, New Brunswick family served during the Second World War. They came by this dedication to duty honestly—their father Albert Carty had served with the No. 2 Construction Battalion during the First World War.

At a time when recruiting regulations restricted the ability of Black people to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force, all five overcame the odds and became airmen. Four of the five served at military bases in Canada during the war. Flight Sergeant Adolphus Carty, the eldest, was an airframe mechanic. His brother, Flight Sergeant William Carty, was an aeronautical inspector. Leading Aircraftman Clyde Carty was a firefighter. And Aircraftman (Second Class) Donald Carty was an equipment assistant.

Gerald Carty enlisted at age 18 and became one of the youngest commissioned officers in the Royal Canadian Air Force a year later. He served in the United Kingdom where he trained in radio and radar operation for aircrew.

In keeping with the family tradition, the two younger Carty brothers still at home during the war years, Robert and Malcolm, were members of the Army and Air Cadets.

Published by Veterans Affairs Canada
A Black History Month Salute to the Carty Brothers added by The Caribbean Camera Inc. on February 12, 2022