Humanist Fellowship of Montreal
- Humanist Fellowship of Montreal
The Humanist Fellowship of Montreal was an organization of secular humanists founded in 1954 by Drs. R. K. Mishra, Ernest Poser, and Maria Jutta Cahn. Lord Bertrand Russell and Dr. Brock Chisholm, a psychiatrist and first Director of the World Health Organization were its patrons. Its members were prominent in the foundation in 1968 of the Humanist Association of Canada with HFM member Dr. Henry Morgentaler as its first president.
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