Each month Temple Lodge No. 33 features a Deceased Brother of Temple Lodge as a way highlighting Masonic history in Duncan and the Cowichan Valley.
Our featured Deceased Member of Temple Lodge No. 33 for February 2017 is J. Islay Mutter (1874-1950), who is the only person to have served as both Mayor of Duncan and Reeve (now Mayor) of North Cowichan. Continue reading J. Islay Mutter – Featured Deceased Member of Temple Lodge No. 33 For February 2017
On 23 January 2017 the Temple Lodge No.33 Historian and webmaster, W.B. Mark Anderson, attended a lecture at the Congregation Emanu-El synagogue in Victoria which focused on a University of Victoria Anthropology course, ANTH 395, which is using the Victoria Jewish Cemetery as a teaching aid for archaeological methods. (April 2017 Update: ANTH 395 has been reclassified as ANTH 367)
One of the projects this course is undertaking is to identify the unmarked burial plots of the Victoria Jewish Cemetery and identify the people whose grave locations have been forgotten.
One of those unmarked graves is that of M.W.B. Marcus Wolfe (died 1896), Past Grand Master, whose grave in Victoria Jewish Cemetery is unmarked and its exact location not known.
Here are the website and Facebook page for the ANTH 395 course.
We are very honoured that students in the ANTH 395 course have been regularly using our Temple Lodge No.33 website as a research tool for their work in the Victoria Jewish Cemetery.
Here are some graves of deceased Freemasons in Victoria Jewish Cemetery:
Morris Price died in 1861 and was the first interment in Victoria Jewish Cemetery.
Rabbi Elias Friedlander was the Chief Rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El.
Judah Phillip Davies and his son Joshua Phillip Davies were auctioneers and leading figures in the late 19th century Jewish community on Victoria.
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Each month Temple Lodge No.33 features a Deceased Member as a way of highlighting Masonic history in Duncan and the Cowichan Valley.
Our featured Deceased Member for January 2017 is James McLeod Campbell (1865-1961), building contractor who also served as Reeve of North Cowichan in 1907 and as a Councilor on the first Duncan City Council in 1912.
As a building contractor, James McLeod Campbell built St. John’s Anglican Church, 486 Jubilee Street in downtown Duncan, in 1905.
James McLeod Campbell is buried in Mountain View Cemetery, North Cowichan.
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Victoria-Columbia Lodge No.1 has put out a very good video on YouTube entitled Freemasonry: The Journey Begins!
Here it is:
We have added this video to our pages on Becoming A Mason and Education Videos.
OFFICIAL VISIT TO DISTRICT 5 OF THE GRAND MASTER
MOST WORSHIPFUL BROTHER IAN BOWMAN
DATE: MONDAY, 9 JANUARY 2017, 4:00 P.M.
VENUE: MORPETH MASONIC TEMPLE, 620 MORPETH AVE., NANAIMO, B.C.
BANQUET TO FOLLOW AT ST. PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH HALL, 100 CHAPEL ST. NANAIMO, B.C.
COCKTAILS 5:30, TICKETS $30.00 per PERSON
TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH LODGE SECRETARIES OR R.W.B. NEIL WESTMACOTT, THE DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER OF DISTRICT 5
LADIES HOSTED SOCIAL EVENT DOWNSTAIRS AT MORPETH HALL DURING THE LODGE MEETING
HOST LODGE: NANAIMO LODGE, No. 110
The January 2017 Regular Meeting of Temple Lodge, No. 33 will be held on 10 January 2017, 7:30 p.m. at Duncan Masonic Temple.
All Visiting Brethren are very welcome to attend.
Please note that there will also be a Board of General Purposes at 6:45 p.m., 10 January 2017 prior to the January 2017 Regular Meeting, to discuss some Temple Lodge No.33 plans for 2017. A light dinner will be held at 6:00 p.m., before the Board of General Purposes.
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Each month Temple Lodge, No.33 features a deceased member as a way of highlighting our Lodge history and the role Lodge members have played in the history of Duncan and the Cowichan Valley.
The featured Deceased Member of Temple Lodge for December 2016 is Christopher Dobson (died 1937, aged 74), who was the first new member Initiated in Temple Lodge in 1900 after Temple Lodge was formed in December 1899.
Christopher Dobson came to Duncan in the 1890’s and built what is now 101 Station Street (currently occupied by Leaf and Petal florists) for his wheelwright and carriage repair business. It is one of the oldest existing buildings in Duncan.
Christopher Dobson’s house is still standing at 220 Beech Road in Duncan.
Christopher Dobson was an excellent carpenter. In 1927 and 1928 he built the altars which are still in use in Temple Lodge, No. 33 and in Ashlar Lodge, No. 3 in Nanaimo.
Christopher Dobson is buried in St. Peter’s Quamichan Anglican Cemetery.
The next Regular Meeting of Temple Lodge, No.33 will be held on Tuesday, 13 December 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at the Duncan Masonic Temple, 163 Canada Avenue, Duncan, B.C.
Among other business, members of Temple Lodge, No.33 will be balloting on the Petition for Initiation of a new candidate.
All Visiting Brethren are very welcome to attend.
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Each month Temple Lodge, No.33 features a deceased member as a way of highlighting our Lodge history and the role Lodge members have played in the history of Duncan and the Cowichan Valley.
The featured Deceased Member of Temple Lodge for November 2016 is Hugh George Egiote Savage (1882-1957), who was the owner, editor and publisher of the Cowichan Leader newspaper from 1914 until 1956.
In 1929 Hugh George Savage commissioned local architect Douglas James to design and build what is now 151-155 Craig Street. Hugh Savage used the building as the office and printing facility for his Cowichan Leader newspaper.
Hugh George Savage is buried in St. Mary’s Somenos Anglican Cemetery on Somenos Road, North Cowichan.
For more information on Hugh George Savage, see our full webpage about him on this site.
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The Corner House Cafe in downtown Duncan hosted a meeting of local history buffs on the evening Saturday, 5 November 2016. Temple Lodge, No.33 historian Mark Anderson attended the meeting along with about thirty other people who are interested in the history of Duncan and the Cowichan Valley.
Several local collectors brought items from their collections to exhibit for the event.
Among the items displayed was a realtors’ lawn sign for Cecil Bradshaw & Co. – Insurance & Real Estate. We believe this sign dates from the 1930s.
Cecil Bradshaw was a member of Temple Lodge, No.33. He was Initiated, Passed and Raised in 1927, one of over 20 new members who joined Temple Lodge in that year.
We have not yet included a page for Cecil Bradshaw on our website but we will do some research this week and will put up a page on Cecil Bradshaw later this week.
Stay tuned….
Thanks to the Corner House Cafe for hosting this event.