Rosemere Lodge
History of
Rosemere Lodge
History of Rosemere Lodge
In the 1950's, Rosemere's Community Leaders, Bob and Harold Kunzli, The
Rev. George Norman, Charly Tinkler, Don Cotton and Don Bourne, simply
found route 11 too much to bear and the one hour to Montreal's Masonic
Temple a Bi-Monthly ordeal.
Almost all of this group being members of
Montreal Kilwinning Lodge, approached two sympathetic past Masters of
this lodge and asked for advise.
Their blunt answer "don't", "too much
work and worry" made our founder's more persistent and soon captured the
enthusiasm of the R.W. Brn. Jim Sinclair and Ed Hoover (to become the
first W.M. and I.P.M. respectively of our lodge)
Two Mountains Lodge had
recently been formed and one of the first motion on the night they received
their charter, was to sponsor Rosemere Lodge. Frank Wallis, the first
presiding Master of Two Mountains Lodge, joined as a charter member.
Bro.
"Pete" Dupuis, employed in the construction of Rosemere United Church,
"wisely:" designed the lower hall of the church to resemble lodge
room and provided a Mosaic Pavement patterned floor for the first and
long-term home of "123".
Soon a dispensation was granted by M.W. Bro.
C.L. Roman and Rosemere Lodge, U.D., was instituted on April 1, 1953,
by the Deputy Grand Master, R.W. Bro. D.L. Witter, as The Grand Master
was ill.
The MostW., The Grand Master, Consecrated the lodge on December
3,1953.
With the exception of Alex Skilling (a Charter Member) and Bill
Lutes (an Affiliate) all our Master's were Rosemere initiated from 1959
to 1984, a long unbroken line.
What started as a polyglot group of Brethren,
strictly local, is now spread over all of Canada and further a field.
May the
feeling of Brotherhood, one of the Major tenet of the Craft, continue and shine forth
from "1-2-3" The "Great, Little Lodge".
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