Each month Temple Lodge No. 33 features a Deceased Vancouver Island Freemason as part of our Vancouver Island Masonic History Project and as a way of highlighting the contributions Freemasons have made to Vancouver Island.
For December 2017 we a featuring Amor de Cosmos (1825-1897), a charter Member of Victoria Lodge 1085, the first Masonic Lodge on Vancouver Island, the founder of the British Daily Colonist (now the Times-Colonist), M.L.A., second Premier of B.C. and Member of Parliament for Victoria.
Amor de Cosmos is buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, B.C.
See our webpage on Amor de Cosmos.