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The Masonic ceremony of laying the cornerstone occurring November 17, 1917, with the first Lodge meeting taking place on New Year's Day, 1918. [2] At its peak, the Masonic Temple was home to 38 different Masonic bodies: 27 Craft Lodges, six Chapters ( York Rite ), two Preceptories ( Knights Templar ), two Scottish Rite Bodies and Adoniram Council.
CTV Temple-Masonic Temple in Toronto — Added to the City of Toronto Heritage Property Inventory in 1974, and designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1997. Originally constructed as a Masonic Hall, the building has changed hands a number of times.
The history of Toronto dates back to Indigenous settlements in the region approximately 12,000 years ago. However, the oldest standing structures in Toronto were built by European settlers. Remains of a Seneca settlement exist at the federally protected Bead Hill archaeological site, in eastern Toronto.
Goose and Gridiron tavern, where the United Grand Lodge of England was founded in 1717. In the early years of Freemasonry, from the 17th through the 18th centuries, it was most common for Masonic Lodges to form their Masonic Temples either in private homes or in the private rooms of public taverns or halls which could be regularly rented out for Masonic purposes.
Work on the four-floor, 100-year-old Masonic Temple on Market Avenue N. in Canton began in 1924 and was completed two years later. The new cornerstone will be displayed inside the building.
Toronto Masonic Temple, 888 Yonge Street. No longer affiliated with Freemasonry; Masonic Temple (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador) Montreal Masonic Memorial Temple, Montreal, QC; Saint John Masonic Temple, Saint John, New Brunswick; St. Mark's Masonic Lodge, Baddeck, NS
A time capsule hidden in the cornerstone of the Zanesville Masonic Temple building revealed history of the building’s construction on Saturday.
An outstanding example of picturesque design inspired by the 19th-century tradition of rural cemeteries in a naturalistic setting; many of the grave markers are representative of significant epochs in the history of Toronto and the rest of the country Old Toronto City Hall and York County Court House [50] [51] 1899 (completed) 1984 Toronto