" " •» - »•* «ii«'i»' »i'« " « " « « •• " •• «' « « »' * Grand Lodge A,F. & A.M. of Canada In the ProTince of Ontario PROCEEDINGS 1977 " I I I I « " » III* It I « .« H . H nil t « '» BROCK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY From the Masonic Library of Lawrence Runnalls St. Catharines August 1988 =• LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Arcliive in 2011 with funding from Heritage Lodge No. 730 G.R.C. & Grand Lodge A.F.& A.IVI. of Canada in the Province of Ontario http://www.archive.org/details/grandlodge1977onta M.W. BRO. R. E. DAVIES Grand Master GRAND LODGE A.F. & A.M. OF CANADA In the Province of Ontario PROCEEDINGS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL COMMUNICATION HELD IN THE CITY OF TORONTO July 20th, A.D. 1977, A.L. 5977 The Property of and ordered to be read in all the Lodges and preserved. A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF OUR GRAND MASTER Robert Edwin Davies was born in Mount Forest, Ontario, October 5, 1931. Here he received his elemen- tary 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 extra- curricular activities as President of the student council and quarterback of the football team attest to his leader- ship ability even at this early age. In 1948, during his final school year, owing to the sudden illness and subsequent passing of his father, he took over the family retail business and has operated it most successfully ever since. In 1954 he married Annabelle Christie of HopevUle 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. Albans 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 Committee on Fraternal Dead in 1971 and 1972, he was then appointed for 1973 and 1974 Chairman of Benevolence, a committee with which he had been closely associated during his entire tenure as a mem- ber of the Board of General Purposes. 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 Sov- ereign 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-second Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge A.F. & A.M. of Canada, in the Province of Ontario, held in the City of Toronto, commencing Wednesday, July 20, A.D. 1977, A.L. 5977. Present were: THE GRAND MASTER M.W. Bro. E. W. Nancekivell THE DEPUTY GRAND MASTER R.W. Bro. R. E. Davies R.W. Bro. Ronald E. Groshaw Grand Senior Warden R.W. Bro. J. A. Tre. Behan Grand Junior Warden R.W. Bro. Rev. G. C. Coster Scovil Grand Chaplain M.W. Bro. M. C. Hooper Grand Treasurer M.W. Bro. J. A. Irvine Grand Secretary R.W. Bro. Matthew^ B. Dymond Grand Registrar V.W. Bro. Kenneth L. Schweitzer .. 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. G. Dixon (Hon.), M. C. Hooper (Hon.). THE DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTERS Algoma Allan I. Suni Brant Morley Coverdale Bruce E. James Scarborough Chatham Hugh M. Dunlop Eastern Elmer W. Park Frontenac Raymond L. Gamble Georgian Arthur D. Hamilton Grey William A. Strutt Hamilton "A" Earl C. Colyer Hamilton "B" David H. Felker Hamilton "C" Bruce W. MacDonald London East William R. Pellow London West Russel E. Pennington Musk. -Parry Sound Wm. H. Gerhart Niagara "A" J. William Springsted Niagara "B" Herbert W. Stouffer 4 GRAND LODGE OF CANADA ANNUAL COMMUNICATION Nipissing Centre A. Ainsley Roseborough Nipissing East Hartley H. Perkins Nipissing West Horace W. Walker North Huron W. Wilfred Campbell Ontario W. James Marlow Ottawa 1 Gerald E. MacDonald Ottawa 2 Harold R. Haywood Peterborough Morgan A. Durnford Prince Edward Lewis E. Wight St. Lawrence W. Grant Haskin St. Thomas George A. Lang Sarnia H. Burton Johnson South Huron David J. Blatchford Temiskaming R. Hugh Calverley Toronto 1 H. James Johnson Toronto 2 Roy W. Kenney Toronto 3 C. Edwin Drew Toronto 4 George H. C. Hardy Toronto 5 Clifford E. Frape Toronto 6 Christopher Torbet Toronto 7 Archibald D. Grant Victoria Jack Hughes Waterloo Terrence R. Williams Wellington Lloyd T. Millard Western James D. Jackson Wilson Victor L. Moore Windsor Thomas E. Weaver BOARD MEMBERS A. C. Ashforth, T. L. Wilson, J. J. Talman, N. R. Richards, 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, G. C. Phair, A. E. Broadley, W. E. McLeod, Robert CoUedge, 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, 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 TORONTO, ONTARIO, 1977 J. A. Turner New Zealand Charles Fotheringham Queensland W. H. Quinn South Australia James Meek Tasmania C. W. Emmett Victoria B. C. McClelland Western Australia D. E. Magee Alabama R. G. Truscott Arkansas E. W. Nancekivell California R. C. Fuller Colorado N. E. Byrne Connecticut M. C. Hooper Delaware D. W. Grierson Dist. of Columbia H. V. Bartlett Florida E. J. Langley Georgia G. E. Turner Illinois G. I. Davies Indiana Alan Broughton Kansas Robert Montgomery Kentucky R. E. Davies Louisiana W. T. Overend Maine B. B. Foster Massachusetts Harvey Linklater Michigan D. J. Miller Mirmesota R. T. Runciman Mississippi C. H. Heels Missouri Robert Colledge Montana K. N. Nesbitt Nebraska C. C. Lillico New Hampshire H. I. Sparling New Jersey H. C. Steele New York A. C. Ashforth North Carolina J. J. Talman North Dakota M. B. Dymond Ohio C. M. Rawson Oklahoma John O'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 G. C. Searson Washington 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 6 GRAND LODGE OF CANADA ANNUAL COMMUNICATION W. L. Pacey Costa Rica 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 H. R. Banwell Italy C. G. Wonfor Japan J. C. Guy Luxembourg J. D. Jackson Netherlands B. M. McCall Norway G. H. Vogan Panama 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 D. R. Shaw Switzerland T. J. Arthur Turkey Robert Strachan Venezuela W. B. Carmon York, Mexico The M.W. the Grand Master, E. W. Nancekivell, 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.