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Mormon immigrants were praised by a Canadian government inspector for their irrigation efforts, but polygamy was outlawed in Canada soon after the settlement was created. [2] In 1888, a request from John Taylor, Francis Lyman , and Charles Card to practice polygamy was denied by Canadian Prime Minister John A. Macdonald . [ 14 ]
With the church reporting more than 200,000 members at year-end 2022, Canada ranks as having the 4th largest body of LDS Church members in North America and the 12th worldwide. [4] The 2021 Canadian Census survey reported approximately 0.2% of the population (about 87,725 people) identified themselves as church members. [5]
The following communities were founded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Alberta: . 1887 — Cardston [1] 1888 — Aetna [1] 1890 — Mountain View [1]
Journey to Zion: Voices from the Mormon Trail. Salt Lake City, Utah, Deseret Book, 1997. ISBN 1-57345-244-0. May, Dean L. Utah: A People's History. Bonneville Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1987. ISBN 0-87480-284-9. Slaughter, William and Landon, Michael. "Trail of Hope: The Story of the Mormon Trail". Deseret Book Company, Salt Lake City, 1997.
Modern biographers and scholars—Mormon and non-Mormon alike—agree that Smith was one of the most influential, charismatic, and innovative figures in American religious history. [170] In a 2015 compilation of the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time, Smithsonian ranked Smith first in the category of religious figures. [ 171 ]
In 2008, Palmer wrote an article in The Salt Lake Tribune comparing the Mormon and Catholic Churches to the Pharisees, whose observance of strict laws and oral traditions was decried by Jesus. Palmer believed that, instead, a true belief in Christian religion is centered in individually becoming good and loving people. [56]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday that a man raised in England who converted to the faith as an adult will be the newest member of its top governing body, filling a ...
Ted E. Brewerton, a general authority of the LDS Church, stated in 1995: "Many migratory groups came to the Americas, but none was as important as the three mentioned in the Book of Mormon. The blood of these people flows in the veins of the Blackfoot and the Blood Indians of Alberta, Canada; in the Navajo and the Apache of the American ...