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 (1825-1897) - photo from B.C. Archives](http://www.templelodge33.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Amor_de_Cosmos-bc_archives-templelodge33-1662x2518-661x1024.jpg)
Amor de Cosmos is buried in Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, B.C.
![Amor de Cosmos grave, Ross Bay Cemetery, Victoria, B.C.](http://www.templelodge33.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Amor_de_Cosmos-grave-templelodge33-1662x2113-805x1024.jpg)
See our webpage on Amor de Cosmos.