Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of Canada in the Province of Ontario is a Grand Lodge with jurisdiction over 571 [1] masonic lodges located in the province of Ontario in Canada with around 46,000 members. [2] The Grand Lodge is in full amity and recognition with the United Grand Lodge of England. [3]
The Order was more formally organized in 1830 when Ogle Robert Gowan established the Grand Orange Lodge of British North America in the Upper Canada town of Elizabethtown, which became Brockville in 1832 (according to the plaque outside the original lodge in Brockville, Ontario). Gowan immigrated from Ireland in 1829, and became the Grand ...
This is a list of all verifiable organizations that claim to be a Masonic Grand Lodge in Canada. A Masonic "Grand Lodge" (or sometimes "Grand Orient") is the governing body that supervises the individual "Lodges of Freemasons" in a particular geographical area, known as its "jurisdiction" (usually corresponding to a sovereign state or other major geopolitical unit).
An organization of Grand Lodge leaders, representing 64 sovereign jurisdictions located throughout the US, Canada, Mexico and Germany. Its members are broadly recognized by jurisdictions throughout the world. Today, these CGMNA jurisdictions serve over 2 million Freemasons in North America. [4] Its oldest constituent Grand Lodge dates itself to ...
As Johnson was a Loyalist during the American Revolution, he is believed to have taken his warrant with him when he fled to Canada, thus leaving the Moderns Lodges without a Provincial Grand Master. [8] Provincial Grand Lodge for North America (Scotland) - Est. 1757 - By warrant issued to Colonel John Young. [9] Provincial Grand Lodge of Canada ...
The all-island Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland was established in 1798. Its name is a tribute to the Dutch-born Protestant king William of Orange , who defeated the Catholic English king James II in the Williamite–Jacobite War (1689–1691).
The Imperial Grand Black Chapter of the British Commonwealth, or simply the Royal Black Institution, [1] is a Protestant fraternal society. In 2016, a theological working group set up by the Church of Ireland was informed by the organisation's leadership that it had a membership of around 17,000, of whom around 16,000 lived in the British Isles.
Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario (GLCPOO) Ontario: 1855 Hamilton 560 36,733 [21] UGLE: Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons Province of Ontario and Jurisdiction Ontario Quebec [22] 1856 [22] 10 [23] UGLE: Grand Lodge of Manitoba Manitoba: 1875 [24] Winnipeg 54 1,971 [21] UGLE: Grand Lodge of Newfoundland and Labrador