A general register of all the lodges and grand lodges of freemasons in North America which maintain mutual correspondence and recognition . Dortfisf) (CofumOta. A Grand Lodge for this Province was organized on the 24th ofDec, 1867, at Victoria. Vancouvers Island, by representativesfrom the four lodges in the Colony, and Isa. W. Powell was electedthe first grand master. No information later than 1869 has beenreceived from there, and hence our register of this body must beand remain imperfect. Four lodges with 142 members, so far asknown, are all which were in the province in May, 1869. Of these
A general register of all the lodges and grand lodges of freemasons in North America which maintain mutual correspondence and recognition . Dortfisf) (CofumOta. A Grand Lodge for this Province was organized on the 24th ofDec, 1867, at Victoria. Vancouvers Island, by representativesfrom the four lodges in the Colony, and Isa. W. Powell was electedthe first grand master. No information later than 1869 has beenreceived from there, and hence our register of this body must beand remain imperfect. Four lodges with 142 members, so far asknown, are all which were in the province in May, 1869. Of theselodges three were originally chartered by the G. L. of Scotland,and one by the G. L. of Englaud. II. F. IIeistekmax, of Victoria,is the present grand Secretary. CCana&.tt. The grand lodge which has jurisdiction in the upper or westernprovince of the British Dominion of Canada, at present known asOntario, is styled the Grand Lodge of Canada, and which name,since the organization and general recognition of a grand lodge inthe lower or eastern province known as Quebec, is regarded a mis-nomer. In1855 the first earnest movement took
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