MASONIC ISLAND is situated in Lake Metigoshe in the beautiful Turtle Mountains, between the borders of Manitoba and North Dakota. It covers 7.2 acres, and has been the site of international Masonic gatherings since 1906. At the initial meeting, three...
BLACK CREEK MASONIC LODGE, is located in Pioneer Village at Jane St. and Steeles Ave, Toronto, was built in the 1840’s, It’s original site was in Woodbridge, Ontario, and it was moved to it’s present location some 10 years...
The practice of “SQUARING THE LODGE” seems to have originated in the 1730’s when the Lodge, i.e. the Tracing Board, used to be drawn on the floor, usually within a border, which could be erased after the meeting, or...
EDWARD VII, King of England, born 1841, died 1910, was initiated into Masonry by the King of Sweden at Stockholm in 1868. In 1870 he was appointed Honorary Past Grand Master of England, but was installed actual Grand Master...
The Birthplace of the first Grand Lodge of England, in 1717, was in a London tavern called “The Goose and Gridiron”, located in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Cathedral. Although it was demolished in 1894, there is an identically...
The Philadelphia Masonic Temple at 1 North Broad St., in Pennsylvania has seven Lodge rooms, each individually styled in excellent examples of Corinthian, Gothic, Ionic, Italian Renaissance, Norman, Oriental, and Egyptian architecture. The main entrance hall has a beautiful Norman...
HAWAII was discovered by Bro. Captain Cook in 1778. In 1843 its first Masonic Lodge, Lodge le Progres de l’Oceanie #124 was formed under dispensation from the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite of France, which in those days, included...
The “Forget-me-not”, a tiny blue flower was introduced as a lapel badge in 1934 by the German Grand Lodge of the Sun in Bayreuth, Germany, in lieu of the “Square & Compasses”, as a mark of identification for Freemasons....
Bro. Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART composed “The Magic Flute” to replace the symbolic Masonic initiations that were forbidden by the emperor of Austria, – thus enabling the Brethren to instruct Masonically in spite of the edicts of a tyrannical government. V.W....
Bro. George WASHINGTON was the Worshipful Master of Alexandria Lodge at the same time he was inaugurated the first president of the U.S.A. Bro. Benjamin FRANKLIN was Grand Master of the State of Pennsylvania. He also published the first Masonic book...