From the time she was a child growing up in a small town in British Columbia in the 1940s and ’50s, Bernice Muir had a strong faith in God and felt a sense of being guided. In the 1960s, after training at Vancouver General Hospital, Bernice worked as a nurse in Powell River, B.C., and in the Canadian Arctic. Later she earned a B.Sc. Honours in Biochemistry and an M.Sc. in Biology from the University of British Columbia. Muir taught at several post-secondary institutions in Canada and wrote two textbooks. She learned about the Bahá’í Faith from a student and became a Bahá’í in 1976 while teaching at Cariboo College in Kamloops, B.C. Muir served the Bahá’í Faith in various capacities in several communities in Canada and in Tanzania, and she also served as a volunteer at the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel. She currently resides in Comox, B.C., where she continues to be actively involved in the Bahá’í community.