Some Frequently Asked Questions
About Freemasonry


                                     


IMPORTANT MASONIC DATES
First Grand Lodge founded: June 1717 in England
Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario founded: 1855
Our First Grand Master: Willliam Mercer Wilson (1855-1859)
Birch Cliff Lodge Founded: March 1922 at Scarborough
First Meeting Held: Sept. 8th, 1922
Lodge Consecrated: Nov. 23rd, 1923
by M.W. Bro. W.M. Drope, Grand Master
Toronto District 3 formed: 1960
Scarborough Masonic Temple Opened: 1961
Toronto East District formed: July, 2006

OTHER CONCORDANT BODIES


Royal Arch Masonry
Scottish Rite Masonry
A.A.O.N.M.S (The Shriners)
Order of The Eastern Star
Order of Amaranth
Order of Demolay (Ontario) for Boys
The Philalethes Society



SOME FAMOUS MASONS

PRIME MINISTERS of CANADA:

Sir John A. MacDonald (1st)
Sir John Abbott (4th)
Sir Mackenzie Bowell (6th)
Sir Robert L. Borden (9th)
Richard B. Bennett (14th)
John G. Diefenbaker (17th)
 COMPOSERS:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
John Phillip Sousa
Richard Wagner
George M. Cohan
Franz Joseph Haydn
Franz Listz
Irving Berlin
NOTED CANADIANS:

John Graves Simcoe, Lt. Gov. of Ontario
Lord Thompson of Fleet, publisher
Samuel Bronfman, businessman
John D. Eaton, Eatons Dept. Stores
Alexander Keith, Keith Breweries
Earl G. Grey, Gov. Gen. of Canada
Chief Joseph Brant
Carl Brewer, hockey star
James A. Naismith, basketball inventor
Allan (Lord Athol) Layton, wrestler
Gordon Sinclair, broadcaster
W.R.(Wop) May, aviation pioneer
John M. Molson, Molson Breweries
Glenn Ford, actor
William (Whipper) Watson, wrestler
 RELIGIOUS LEADERS:

Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher
(Archbishop of Canterbury)
James Baker
(Methodist Church)
Robert Baylor
(Baptist clergyman)
Preston Bradley
(The Peoples Church)
Hugh Evans
(Presbyterian Church USA)
Eugene Frank
(Methodist Bishop)
and many others....
NOTED WORLD LEADERS:

Sir Winston S. Churchill
H.M. King Edward VII
H.M. King Edward VIII
H.M. King George IV
H.M. King George VI
H.R.H. The Duke of Edinburgh
Frederick the Great of Prussia
Cecil J. Rhodes of Rhodesia
King Hussein of Jordan
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk of Turkey
Giuseppe Garibaldi of Italy

and ....
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent,
Grand Master of
The United Grand Lodge of England

and many others...

PRESIDENTS OF THE U.S.A:

George Washington (1st)
James Madison (4th)
James Monroe (5th)
Andrew Jackson (7th)
James K. Polk (11th)
James Buchanan (15th)
Andrew Johnson (17th)
James A. Garfield (20th)
William McKinley (25th)
Theodore Roosevelt (26th)
Warren G. Harding (29th)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd)
Harry S Truman (33rd)
Lyndon B. Johnson (36th)
Gerald R. Ford (38th)

ENTERTAINERS:

Clark Gable
Peter Sellers
Oliver Hardy
Glenn Ford
Burl Ives
Al Jolson
Dick Powell
Roy Rogers
Red Skelton
John Wayne
Cecil B. DeMille
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
W.C. Fields

and many others...

WRITERS:

Robert Burns
Sir Walter Scott
Samuel L. Clemens
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edward Gibbon
Anthony Trollope
Rudyard Kipling
Alexander Pope
Raphael Sabatini
Jonathan Swift
Oscar Wilde

and many others...

MILITARY & ASTRONAUTS:

Gen. Omar N. Bradley
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Lord Kitchener of Khartoum
Gen. John J. Pershing
Gen. George Pickett
Col. John Glenn
Fld. Mrsh. Earl D. Haig
Capt. John Paul Jones
Neil Armstrong
Col. Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin
The Duke of Wellington

EXPLORERS:

Sir Ernest Shackleton
Capt. Robert F. Scott
Adm. Richard E. Byrd
William Clark
Davey Crockett
Merriwether Lewis
Robert E. Peary

SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS:

Sir Alexander Fleming (penicillin)
Charles A. Lindbergh (aviation)
John McAdam (tarmacadam)
Ransom Olds (automobiles)
Sir Bernard Spillsbury (patholgy)
Samuel Colt (firearms)
Joseph Guillotin

and many others...

SPORTS:

Arnold Palmer - golf
Jack Dempsey - boxing
Ty Cobb - baseball
John Elway - football
Tim Horton - hockey
Carl Brewer - hockey
Jack Kemp - football
Branch Rickey - baseball
Knute Rockne - football
Cy Young - baseball

and many others...


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