»»««»»»•»«««»»«' !»»«»»»« »»'«» » Grand Lodge & AJF* A*M* of Canada Inthe Province ofOntario PROCEEDINGS 1978 £ I BROCK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY From the Masonic Library of J. Lawrence Runnalls Sl. Catharines August 1988 LIBRARY ° ROCK UNIVERSITY. ,!. t. RurinSflJ MOST WORSHIPFUL BROTHER ROBERT EDWIN DAVIES GRAND MASTER GRAND LODGE & OF CANADA A.F. A.M. In the Province of Ontario PROCEEDINGS ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL COMMUNICATION HELD IN THE CITY OF TORONTO July 19th, A.D. 1978, A.L. 5978 The Property of and ordered to be read in all the Lodges and preserved. Digitizedbythe InternetArchive in2011 withfundingfrom HeritageLodgeNo.730G.R.C.&GrandLodgeA.F.&A.M.ofCanadaintheProvinceofOntario http://www.archive.org/details/grandlodge1978onta A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF OUR GRAND MASTER Robert Edwin Davies was born in Mount Forest, Ontario, October 5, 1931. Here he received his elementary and secondary school education. Always a good scholar and a fine athlete, he was the recipient of several academic and athletic awards and trophies. His extracurricular activities as President of the student council and quarterback of the football team attest to his leadership ability even at this ear- ly age. In 1948, during his final school year, owing to the sud- den illness and subsequent passing of his father, he took over the family retail business and has operated it most suc- cessfully ever since. In 1954 he married Annabelle Christie of Hopeville and the Davies now have three children, t—he eldest, Kathy, a graduate of the University of Waterloo now enrolled at the Ontario Teacher Education College, Hamilton; Robert, presently at home in the family business; and the youngest, Lynn, a student at the Mount Forest District High School. He is a member of the United Church and over the years has served on many committees and boards, both in the Church and also in the Sunday School. Always interested in his community, your Grand Master is a past director of the Mount Forest Boy Scout Group, past director of the Mount Forest Louise Marshall Hospital Board, former member of the Mount Forest Cameron Highlanders Pipe Band, and past President ofthe Mount Forest Investment Club. His many hobbies include all sports, and amateur radio where he is the holder of an Advanced Amateur Radio License and can be identified around the world by the call sign VE3ERD. Being initiated, passed and raised in St. Alban's Lodge, No. 200, in 1952, he became Worshipful Master in 1960, and in 1961 was elected District Deputy Grand Master of Grey District. March 1964 saw him appointed the Representative of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana which Grand Lodge conferred upon him the rank of Past Junior Grand Warden. In July ofthe same year hewas appointed a member of the Board of General Purposes of our Grand Lodge, a position to which he has been subsequently elected for five successive two-year terms. Chairman of the Com- mittee on Fraternal Dead in 1971 and 1972, he was then ap- pointed for 1973 and 1974 Chairman of Benevolence, a committee with which he had been closely associated during his entire tenure as a member ofthe Board ofGeneral Pur- poses. He was elected Deputy Grand Master in July 1975 and Grand Master in July 1977. Our Grand Master is a member of the Royal City Lodge of Perfection; Past Most Wise Sovereign of the Guelph Chapter Rose Croix; member of the Moore Sovereign Consistory; Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Canada; a member of the Ancient and Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Mocha Temple, London; the Royal Order of Scotland and was coroneted Honorary Inspector-General, 33°, at the Annual Meeting of the Supreme Council, A. & A.S.R. of Canada, in Hamilton, September 1977. In 1961, Robert E. Davies was the youngest District Deputy Grand Master in the Jurisdiction and now at 45 years of age becomes one of the youngest to be elected Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario.