{"id":89,"date":"2023-10-17T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T12:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovermasonrynb.online\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2025-01-24T12:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:29:32","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/discovermasonrynb.online\/?page_id=89","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n \n\n History | Discover Masonry<\/title>\n <meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html;charset=UTF-8\" \/>\n <meta name=\"apple-mobile-web-app-capable\" content=\"yes\">\n<meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=edge,chrome=1\">\n<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"Masonry in New Brunswick, Freemasonry, Grand Lodge of New Brunswick\">\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Masonry in NB\">\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\">\n\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/discovermasonrynb.online\/?page_id=89\"\/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Grand Lodge of New Brunswick \"\/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Discover Masonry In New Brunswick \"\/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.discovermasonrynb.online\"\/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"website\"\/>\n<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"101\"\/>\n<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"104\"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Discover Masonry In NB \"\/>\n<meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"http:\/\/www.discovermasonrynb.online\"\/>\n<style>\n \n p {\n font-family: \"'Crimson Pro',serif\";\n font-size:20px; \n line-height: 1.6em; \n }\n\n ul {\n font-family: \"'Crimson Pro',serif\";\n font-size:20px; \n line-height: 1.6em; \n }\n \n\n li {\n font-family: \"'Crimson Pro',serif\";\n font-size:20px; \n line-height: 1.6em; \n }\n \n \n\n .container {\n position: relative;\n }\n\n .center {\n display: flex;\n justify-content: center;\n align-items: center;\n }\n<\/style>\n\n<\/head>\n<body>\n<h2 class=\"center\">History<\/h2>\n\n<main id=\"PAGES_CONTAINER\" class=\"PAGES_CONTAINER\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-main-content=\"true\">\n \n \n <a role=\"presentation\" class=\"center\">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"resources\/Lodge_Ent_lg.jpg\"\n alt=\"Lodge Ent\"\n \n width=\"620\" height=\"400\"\n \n fetchpriority=\"high\" \/>\n <\/a>\n \n<div class=\" \" data-block-type=\"2\" id=\"history10\">\n <div >\n\n \n <div >\n <br><br>\n\n\n <h1 class=\"center\">Annual Communication<\/h1>\n\n <p align=\"justify\">The Annual Communication of the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick is held in the Blue Room of the Saint John Masonic\n Temple commencing on the Friday preceding the second Saturday in May each year.<\/p>\n <p> <\/p> <br>\n <h1 class=\"text-align-center\">History of the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick<\/h1>\n <p align=\"justify\"> <\/p>\n <p align=\"justify\">Historically, Freemasonry had its beginnings in New Brunswick in 1783, towards the end of the great migration of\n Loyalists from the conflict in the United States. <\/p>\n <p align=\"justify\">New Brunswick became a separate province in 1784, and in September of that year, Hiram Lodge in Parrtown (now\n Saint John, NB) received a dispensation as Lodge #17. St. George Lodge was established at Maugerville (pronounced\n “Major ville”) in 1788, and New Brunswick Lodge in 1789. Over the next 37 years other lodges came into existence\n under the authority of the Provincial Grand Lodges of either Nova Scotia, England, Ireland or Scotland.<\/p>\n <p align=\"justify\">\n With the number of lodges in New Brunswick increasing, initial steps were taken in 1827 to form a Grand Lodge in\n this province. After 2 years of organizing, a Grand Master was actually elected. For some unknown reason the body\n failed to hold another meeting and the effort apparently died a natural death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n <div class=\"container center\">\n \n <div >\n\n <a role=\"presentation\" class=\"\n image-slide-anchor\n content-fit\n \">\n \n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"resources\/Door_lg.jpg\"\n alt=\"Door\"\n width=\"150\" height=\"275\"\n fetchpriority=\"high\" \/>\n\n <\/a>\n       \n <\/div>\n\n <div >\n       \n <a role=\"presentation\" class=\"\n image-slide-anchor\n content-fit\n \">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"resources\/Pillars_lg.jpg\"\n alt=\"Pillars\"\n width=\"150\" height=\"270\"\n fetchpriority=\"high\" \/>\n <\/a>\n\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div>\n\n<br>\n<div class=\" \" data-block-type=\"2\" id=\"his52\">\n <div >\n <div >\n <p align=\"justify\">Nothing further occurred until 1855 when a Deputy Provincial Grand Lodge came into being. Four years later,\n this status was raised to Provincial Grand Lodge, and in 1865, to District Grand Lodge. Finally, on Oct 9-10,\n 1867, 19 lodges met and decided to declare their independence by uniting under their own governing body. After a\n long and somewhat tumultuous start, the present day Grand Lodge of New Brunswick had finally arrived.\n The current Grand Lodge of New Brunswick was actually formed the same year as The Dominion of Canada. <\/p>\n <p align=\"justify\">Benjamin Lester Peters became the first Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of New Brunswick.  <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n <br>\n <div id=\"Conference\">\n <h1 class=\"center\">The Charlottetown Conference  <\/h1>\n <br>\n <h2><span class=\"\" id=\" Canadian Fears \"> Backgrounder – Canadian Fears <\/span><\/h2>\n <br>\n<p> \nThe Province of Canada\u2019s (Upper & Lower) interest in creating a federal union with the Maritime Provinces was mainly due to external threats. A huge army was formed in the United States during the American Civil War. Meanwhile, Britain wanted to reduce its financial and military obligations to its North American colonies. These factors led to fears in Canada of <b>American annexation<\/b>. The province (Canada) had also had a series of weak and unstable governments. This fueled the demands for change and the pressure for a new political structure.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen Canadian political leaders learned through Samuel Tilley of the upcoming conference in Charlottetown, they seized on the chance to attend. They sent a delegation that hadn\u2019t been invited by the Maritime organizers but was welcomed anyway.\n <\/p> \n\n <br>\n <h2><span class=\"\" id=\"Masonic_Fathers_of_Confederation\">Masonic Fathers of Confederation<\/span><\/h2>\n <br>\n <div class=\"slide\" data-type=\"image\" data-animation-role=\"image\">\n <div class=\"center container\">\n\n <a role=\"presentation\" class=\"\n image-slide-anchor\n content-fit\n \">\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"resources\/anecdote_72.jpg\"\n alt=\"Fathers\"\n width=\"626\" height=\"400\"\n fetchpriority=\"high\" \/>\n <\/a>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <br>\n\n <p align=\"justify\">At the time of confederation in 1867, <b> eleven<\/b> men of the 37 Fathers of Confederation were Freemasons.<\/p>\n <ul>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hewitt_Bernard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Hewitt Bernard\" >Hewitt Bernard<\/a> \u2013 Lawyer, Recording Secretary at the Charlottetown Conference<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Campbell_(Canadian_senator)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Alexander Campbell (Canadian senator)\">Alexander\n Campbell<\/a> \u2013 Senator (1867\u20131887), Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1897\u20131892)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Carter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Frederick Carter\">Frederick Carter<\/a> \u2013 First Premier of Newfoundland<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Barron_Chandler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Edward Barron Chandler\">Edward Barron Chandler<\/a> \u2013 Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (1878\u20131880)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Tilloch_Galt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Alexander Tilloch Galt\">Alexander Tilloch Galt<\/a> \u2013 Minister\n of Finance (1867), Founder of the North Western Coal and Navigation Company and Lethbridge, AB<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Hamilton_Gray_(New_Brunswick_politician)\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"John Hamilton Gray (New Brunswick politician)\">John Hamilton Gray<\/a> \u2013 Premier of New Brunswick (1856\u20131857)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_Heath_Haviland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Thomas Heath Haviland\">Thomas Heath Haviland<\/a> \u2013 Senator\n (1873\u20131879), Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (1879\u20131884)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Alexander_Henry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"William Alexander Henry\">William Alexander Henry<\/a> \u2013 Mayor of Halifax (1870\u20131871),\n Supreme Court Justice (1875\u20131888)\n <\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_A._Macdonald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"John A. Macdonald\">John A. Macdonald<\/a> \u2013 First Prime Minister (1867\u20131873,\n 1878\u20131891)<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Henry_Pope_(Canadian_politician)\"\n target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"William Henry Pope (Canadian politician)\">William Henry Pope<\/a> \u2013 Lawyer, Newspaper Editor, Colonial\n Secretary<\/li>\n <li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samuel_Leonard_Tilley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Samuel Leonard Tilley\">Samuel Leonard Tilley<\/a> \u2013 Pharmacist,\n Premier of New Brunswick (1861\u20131865), Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (1885\u20131893 and 1873\u20131878), Originator\n of “Dominion” in Canada’s name\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <p> Whether by coincidence or planning, almost a third (30%) of Canada\u2019s Fathers of Confederation\n were part of this ancient order. By comparison, only <b>nine<\/b> of the 56 signers of the American Declaration of Independence were Freemasons, only 16%. 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