 In 1943, during the annual Baháʼí convention of the United States, Shoghi Effendi announced a Northern- and Southern- international convention which would include representative from each state and province from the United States and Canada and each republic of Latin America.During this convention, Esteban Canales was the Chilean delegate.Artemus Lamb, the second Baháʼí pioneer in Chile arrived on October 2, 1944 in Punta Arenas, and thus relieving Atwater from her outpost.