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Of rich, historic interest are the MASONIC LODGE
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minutes and other entries the 9 ze �0' ,p`)
old books connected with KHIT-
am Masonic lodge in Ingersoll n rya N 'ay}
which just. celebrated. its 130tb Jl 'e I±ORM�>} IN. CABIN a1'r✓ •r"P, 1' 'j4 \ 1
birthday. As time goes in a new.I' 1, l'i tt% i9 ;
land that means a' a time ,II BY, THAN
RIVER I 1� p ,°6�r ��ti�
Many changes have come \o Pass 1. D l AT■f71 111111M44\/ 1Kt {y 9Y f 40 'i'i1
The thingsof an almosbforgotten j a .,.•.
yesterday are gone. Out of the old
book ofminutes of King Hiram IC (Continued £rom page 1)
Lodge, many Interesting facts are `. {{ "The lodge wwent alonas no* fairly
'taken by Marry T.BBower, secretary r grante(1 them fob settlement by the I! eataban
ila ed d � of the lodge.' - i { gs mooth '
were presented by - British crown. - j ly tor. fight 'or nine 'yea
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These facts s,,gradu-�
MS'. Bower at the banquet which 4 Iil "In 1193 Jos�i Brant,' cefa lebrat I l� getting a set of by-laws Per -
marked the -180thanniversary of !" ed Mohawk, sent his trusted your fected'and Increasing their outfit ( r
t.. men`to r- of accessories Until. war ' clouds be,
lodge, and at whichWalter S. guide Ingersoll and Hla ar-
'Herrington, -grand. master of the ,d tY over the ancient trail to Lbc site gan to appear on the horizon.
'In the years preceding 18 2,'thc �-- Grand Lodge pf..Canada was pres- of what i6 now Ingersoll. Three
ent, together with other lummar 1 or four years later Sovm nmeee of Uell Canada, seen
g 1 saw the cone- l
t - ]I, the, need of better loads to al-
les of the craft in Ontario. li ' 1 PlWrei of the survey of Oxford- - -
"1803 TO 1851: a township. The p tow settlers'. -to enec their ,loco'
\change in 'the 1. bone, and thenecessityIf bet-i
The old book, whence Mr. Bow> li 'name of the river to k44e1'Thern. ter military Comm unications°'be-
gleaned his 'most interesting , from 'La
France' and theesLablrsh-r
facts, contains the minutes of I tween the Niagara and D¢trolt
`` mein of atlittle building which did frontiers, had built bridges and
King Hiram Lodge from June to I' duty for trading post, .]and office, t g'
1803,: to April 7, Y857,: The late 'registry
g str and made such improvements as to - 1\ I, re i Y post office I. site B change the Indian trail into a.
!John Roes Robertson, a member otpf�. � of Ihgersoll's 'present market �r 1' Yair-
ilths'.Masomc craft, paid a visit t I square. �. ` Y Passabl9 military road. Thus +'
we had1the ancient highway, —the.
IIngeraoll'and evinced such intere i ` MASONS MEET first -government road. through this \
in the old; book that he seen' "For miles and miles around set.!:part of Ontario. 'It seems that our
permisslon'to take it to his P;ff J tiers made their way 'over the d. past history is very eemsclosely linked >�
ing office in Toronto where he put �+;. blazed trail and by canoe to this}7• up with this highway. Overitodr,
its pages in proper . order and in ( little buildingto post their letters , ancient brethren travelled to at -
its present, binding. i and to trade. Was it not natural'is' tend .Grand Lodge at York or
"As the history of every Mason- ( then' that here Alley ' should meet,
is lodge is so closely linked up with I . i get acquainted and discuss the of- Kingston. Over it game their
the history of Its locality," said Mr.l fairs of '. the day? Such 'mar as Mall —seven
Bower Eo the some 400 Masons as-{ 'Pence from .York to
James Burdick, Enoch urdick Oxford -on -'Thames, and over it al-
sembled in St James' parish hall, Sam el an field, Rober Sweet, so came the marauding bands of^.v.N�"'''''I,
lal am tiles Towels Joel PI _ Yankees in Y812
on birthday occasion last Thursday., `y, �^--
night, "I must ask youto allow er and others should not oulyvc — `GUARUEli (TOOLS
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me to take you back about ten recbgnled In each other character "'The Yankees burned down tUe —f'
years prior to the entries in the ' lines Of good ,neighbors, .but also mill Which served this settlement
book. feel that they had much 1n com- Nr JdC)
mon, all beta i and Which was situated yyn the: rynsLCawn+'�/}
"It is a fact fairly welt estab- r g n possession of the land. of and. opera d by the first Q SOA��arr Cr rn
lished by our historical societythat �` l secrete of. Master„Masous,uthough 01i iN. 1 some owed ailegiance to the Grand t-.,Niche, t,.onn mil easy, of town • rJ
before the first military road loin- (now tenanted by J U..73ibh617a;�a
ing the, Niagara frontier to the bodge of New York, of England, direct descendant} -This, s read y �ta /0 60
Straits of Mackinaw there existed 'consternatto¢
1 Ireland, and even Holland. P nd a
', te. 'in, they community, �
a well-defined trail over which as "If YOU .will allow me to draw and King Hiram lodge, fearing
generation after generation of neu- upon my imagination, they finally loss of 'its paraphernalia, so her
tral- Indidns (sometimes in. peace v' got together, made' appointments to: get In those days, .by resolution
and sometimes with-. hostile inten- held Conversations and made plans on June 30, 1812,-appointed Bro.
tions) had travelled. ` This trail led " until finally they sent a• communi- David Curtis to take. charge oP the
from Ancaster, the outpost of mv- f �a Earn to the Grand Lodge of wore ng oelsvfor safe keeping un-' (',,� f�•
ilization, through the Brant coun- is g and asking. permission to form III after the war. �-�"'"
try to where it touched the River i- �k a' lgcal lodge. After" months of TIDE OXFORD BATTALION V
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La France at the point where our e- welt ng they .were at last Inform- "Many members of King
Thames street (in. Ingersoll) cross- i it edto gather at Oxford-on-Thardes Lodge joined the Oxford battalion,
ed the river,, and thence following td on. the 24th of - Jung, 1803, where 'one of offlcers'being Bro. Ma-:'
the river to the confluence with kf the representatives of the Grand
the north branch on, the, resent Lodge In 17 jor .Axial' Townley` Tiley' fought
p a peer -Canada from Ni- and'distinguished themselves at the'
site of .London, and then west to agora, York and; ISingston would capture ture of Detroit, Fort Erie, Lun-i
. I' meet them. p r...
the Straits of Mackinaw: 1 dy's Lane and Malcolm's Mills.1
LOCATED GRANT 1 I HELD IN CABIN - They received sixpence per day for
"It ran for the" mast part "They had no lodge groom, but a private. it
-thin con tr of tall trees and Bro. Robert Sweet offered his cab _
1`�r *t'- y in. Grand Lod "Along the Highway came rom.
the wee ern €nd still perpetuates 6e opened at 11 a.nce,"for; as Lieut. Secord march- 5� ( 1
the Indian name, (The Longl Woods a.m. and closed at one p.m. King ed his men through and blvouack bfif ✓�.`f °7s o!
Road.' The point here in Lager- i Iilram lodge No. 12 closed at two ed at Oxtord, he met .Laura I er-' dow y'°'y l°
I p.m., "havin n°_L �� os 41
soli, where the trail- touched the t g -Wor:. Bro• _es loin Thcy married, and removed tot 29c{ f�
river, formed a' land mark by rdlck as W.M.,Enoch Burdick -as the Niagara frontier, where she, b
which Itwaspossible for Thomas �� S•B'•l Samuel Canfield, aaJW ,'lier'.phrcic and cool chinking, was'
Ingersoll, Gideon Boswick, Sethay and, W.M.. u ay. secretary rnabled, to render such services t0 p, e9
Hamlett, Abel Kelson and'other� I - , pro tem: The first can date, Is, her country as to pass htr name
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to locate the 86,000 acres of land - aac Burdick, was initiate July b, down to posterity as the Canadian'.
1� $800.. ', a fees were placer 803.
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1. FI!IAT GRAND LODGE
rT' „�Iytet` 2 hta (. gp; i„• , "The ` first representative to
01 �r14A YQ 11' den 1 Is _ 01d Sul � d � 4rand Lodge wee Bro. Page of At
pQ},j 1i m Weak o�++.
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