Grand Lodge of AF & AM of Canada, 1978
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!»»«»»»« » »»««»»»•»«««»» «' » »'«» Grand Lodge AJF* & A*M* of Canada In the Province of Ontario PROCEEDINGS 1978 I £ BROCK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY From the Masonic Library of J. Lawrence Runnalls Sl. Catharines August 1988 LIBRARY ° ROCK UNIVERSITY. ,!. t. RurinSflJ MOST WORSHIPFUL BROTHER ROBERT EDWIN DAVIES GRAND MASTER GRAND LODGE A.F. & A.M. OF CANADA In the Province of Ontario PROCEEDINGS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL COMMUNICATION HELD IN THE CITY OF TORONTO July 19th, A.D. 1978, A.L. 5978 The Property of and ordered to be read in all the Lodges and preserved. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Heritage Lodge No. 730 G.R.C. & Grand Lodge A.F.& A.M. of Canada in the Province of Ontario http://www.archive.org/details/grandlodge1978onta A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF OUR GRAND MASTER Robert Edwin Davies was born in Mount Forest, Ontario, October 5, 1931. Here he received his elementary and secondary school education. Always a good scholar and a fine athlete, he was the recipient of several academic and athletic awards and trophies. His extracurricular activities as President of the student council and quarterback of the football team attest to his leadership ability even at this ear- ly age. In 1948, during his final school year, owing to the sud- den illness and subsequent passing of his father, he took over the family retail business and has operated it most suc- cessfully ever since. In 1954 he married Annabelle Christie of Hopeville and the Davies now have three children, the eldest, Kathy, a graduate of the University of Waterloo—now enrolled at the Ontario Teacher Education College, Hamilton; Robert, presently at home in the family business; and the youngest, Lynn, a student at the Mount Forest District High School. He is a member of the United Church and over the years has served on many committees and boards, both in the Church and also in the Sunday School. Always interested in his community, your Grand Master is a past director of the Mount Forest Boy Scout Group, past director of the Mount Forest Louise Marshall Hospital Board, former member of the Mount Forest Cameron Highlanders Pipe Band, and past President of the Mount Forest Investment Club. His many hobbies include all sports, and amateur radio where he is the holder of an Advanced Amateur Radio License and can be identified around the world by the call sign VE3ERD. Being initiated, passed and raised in St. Alban's Lodge, No. 200, in 1952, he became Worshipful Master in 1960, and in 1961 was elected District Deputy Grand Master of Grey District. March 1964 saw him appointed the Representative of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana which Grand Lodge conferred upon him the rank of Past Junior Grand Warden. In July of the same year he was appointed a member of the Board of General Purposes of our Grand Lodge, a position to which he has been subsequently elected for five successive two-year terms. Chairman of the Com- mittee on Fraternal Dead in 1971 and 1972, he was then ap- pointed for 1973 and 1974 Chairman of Benevolence, a committee with which he had been closely associated during his entire tenure as a member of the Board of General Pur- poses. He was elected Deputy Grand Master in July 1975 and Grand Master in July 1977. Our Grand Master is a member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfection; Past Most Wise Sovereign of the Guelph Chapter Rose Croix; member of the Moore Sovereign Consistory; Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Canada; a member of the Ancient and Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Mocha Temple, London; the Royal Order of Scotland and was coroneted Honorary Inspector-General, 33°, at the Annual Meeting of the Supreme Council, A. & A.S.R. of Canada, in Hamilton, September 1977. In 1961, Robert E. Davies was the youngest District Deputy Grand Master in the Jurisdiction and now at 45 years of age becomes one of the youngest to be elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario. GRAND LODGE, A.F. & A.M. OF CANADA in the Province of Ontario At the One Hundred and Twenty-third Annual Com- munication of the Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Canada, in the Province of Ontario, held in the City of Toronto, com- mencing Wednesday, July 19. A.D. 1978, A.L. 5978. Present were: THE GRAND MASTER M.W. Bro. R. E. Davies THE DEPUTY GRAND MASTER R.W. Bro. N. R. Richards R.W. Bro. W. A. Isbister Grand Senior Warden R.W. Bro. W. S. McNeil Grand Junior Warden R.W. Bro. Rev. Eric Sisel Grand Chaplain Treasurer M.W. Bro. J. N. Allan Grand Secretary M.W. Bro. J. A. Irvine Grand R.W. Bro. Aage Bjerknes Grand Registrar V.W. Bro. A. W. Watson Grand Director of Ceremonies PAST GRAND MASTERS M.W. Bros. W. L. Wright. J. A. Irvine. J. N. Allan, B. B. Foster. W. K. Bailey, G. E. Turner, E. W. Nancekivell. THE DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS Algoma George W. Walker Brant Leonard S. Meiler Bruce Gordon I. Rabb Chatham Donald E. Goodall Eastern Lawrence P. Shaw Frontenac Basil B. Ballance Georgian A. Douglas Smith Grey W. Murray Douglas Hamilton "A" A. Claude Campbell Hamilton "B" George W. Buckler Hamilton "C" RogerG. Parliament London East Frank A. Standring London West James A. Steele Muskoka-Parry Sound Harold D. Toswell Niagara "A" Norman W. Home Niagara "B" William G. A. Barr Nipissing East George B. Murray 4 GRAND LODGE OF CANADA ANNUAL COMMUNICATION Nipissing West Lome G. Wolgemuth North Huron John D. Dyer Ontario I. Norman Smyth Ottawa 1 Keith M. Boyd Ottawa 2 James Selkirk Peterborough Verne E. Young Prince Edward.... Thomas E. Bedford St. Lawrence Howard R. Ferguson St. Thomas Angus Walton Sarnia Albert J. Berry South Huron J. Levi White Sudbury-Manitoulin Eric T. Moore Temiskaming Frank A. Knapp Toronto 1 Sydney A. Browell Toronto 2 Percy A. Jordan Toronto 3 Frank J. Bruce Toronto4 Alvin W. Hawley Toronto 5 Albert W. Slade Toronto 6 Alvin J. Anderson Toronto 7 William D. H. Henderson Victoria Carleton J. Hepburn Waterloo Charles F. Grimwood Wellington Irwin G. Noble Western Alex Warnuk Wilson Joel C. Piper Windsor James M. Napier BOARD MEMBERS A. C. Ashforth, T. L. Wilson, J. J. Talman, C. D. MacKenzie, R. J. Connor, M. J. Damp, H. C. Steele, W. D. Stevens, H. O. Polk, P. S. MacKenzie, R. M. Gunsolus, R. W. Faithfull, E. C. Horwood, C. C. Lillico, Lome Pacey, A. E. Broadley, W. E. McLeod, Robert Colledge, D. E. Magee, A. M. George, C. A. Sankey, N. E. Byrne, G. B. Rickard, John Millar, Jas. Curtis, C. W. Emmett, Arthur Youngs, T. J. Arthur, Edsel Steen, A. L. Copeland, J. B. Hunter, R. T. Runciman. GRAND REPRESENTATIVE GRAND LODGE OF W.L.Wright England J. A. Irvine Ireland J. N. Allan Scotland W.K.Bailey Alberta C. A. Sankey British Columbia M.J. Damp Manitoba H. W. Lyons New Brunswick C. D. MacKenzie Nova Scotia W. H. Mortlock Prince Edward Island P. S. MacKenzie Quebec J. T. Minaker Saskatchewan W. E. McLeod India W. T. Robb New South Wales J. A. Turner New Zealand W. H. Quinn South Australia James Meek Tasmania C. W. Emmett Victoria TORONTO, ONTARIO, 1978 B. C. McClelland Western Australia D. E. Magee Alabama E. W. Nancekivell California R. C. Fuller Colorado N. E. Byrne Connecticut D. W. Grierson Dist. of Columbia H. V. Bartlett Florida E.J. Langley Georgia J. B. Sainsbury Idaho G. E.Turner Illinois G. I. Davies Indiana R. E. Davies Louisiana W.T.Overend Maine H. A. Leal Maryland B. B. Foster Massachusetts Harvey Linklater Michigan D. J. Miller Minnesota R.T. Runciman Mississippi C. H. Heels Missouri Robert Colledge Montana K.N. Nesbitt Nebraska C.C. Lillico New Hampshire H. C. Steele New York A. C. Ashforth North Carolina J. J.Talman North Dakota C. M. Rawson Oklahoma F. D. Shannon Oregon JohnO'Donovan Rhode Island E. G. Dixon South Carolina Harry Jowett South Dakota Ed Balfour Tennessee E. C. Horwood Texas H.O.Polk Utah W.J.Carnegie Vermont Jerald Anderson West Virginia R. M. Gunsolus Wisconsin K.J. Hay Argentina W. D.Stevens Austria T. E. Greenaway Belgium J.A.Foster Chile R. W. Faithfull China H. A. Cameron Colombia Bogota W. M. Newell Colombia Cartagena W. L. Pacey Costa Rica Neil MacEachern Denmark A. M. George Ecuador G.J. Patterson Finland T. L. Wilson France, Nationale N. R. Richards Germany, United Grand Lodges W. S. McVittie Greece J. W. Bradley Guatemala A. G. Skinner Iceland R. L. Elsie Iran A. L. Copeland Israel 6 GRAND LODGE OF CANADA ANNUAL COMMUNICATION H. R. Banwell Italy C. G. Wonfor Japan J. C. Guy Luxembourg J. D. Jackson Netherlands B. M. McCall Norway G. H. Vogan Panama H. C. Kingstone. Para (Brazil) G. H. Gilmer Paraiba (Brazil) H. H. Dymond Peru J.I. Carrick Philippines R. J. Connor Puerto Rico James Jackson Southern Africa W. A. Stewart Sweden DR. Shaw Switzerland T. J. Arthur Turkey Robert Strachan Venezuela W. B. Cannon York, Mexico The M.W. the Grand Master, R. E. Davies. dis- tinguished guests and officers of Grand Lodge took their places in the Canadian Room of The Royal York Hotel at 9 a.m. in the forenoon. MASTER MASONS ADMITTED The Grand Master invited all Master Masons to enter. NATIONAL ANTHEM The brethren joined in singing the Royal Anthem fol- lowed by "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." The brethren then joined in singing three verses of "Unto the Hills." DELEGATES REGISTERED No.