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Freemasonry is afraternal organisation that arose from the loose organization of medieval masons (i.e. stone workers) working in the medieval building industry.^[1]

Freemasonry in Canada traces its origins to theUnited Grand Lodge of England, theGrand Lodge of Scotland and theGrand Lodge of Ireland, as a result of Canada's history as a dominion within theBritish Empire. Freemasonry in the United States, includingPrince Hall Freemasonry, also influenced the formation of Freemasonry in Canada.Erasmus James Philipps became a Freemason while working on a commission to resolve boundaries inNew England and, in 1739, became provincial grand master for Nova Scotia; Philipps founded the first Masonic lodge in Canada atAnnapolis Royal, Nova Scotia.^[2] The Castle Island Virtual Lodge No. 190 is an example of an internet lodge whereby meetings are conducted online rather than in person.[1]

At the time of confederation in 1867, eleven men of the 37Fathers of Confederation were Freemasons.^[3]

• Hewitt Bernard – Lawyer, Recording Secretary at theCharlottetown Conference
• Alexander Campbell – Senator (1867–1887),Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1897–1892)
• Frederick Carter – First Premier ofNewfoundland
• Edward Barron Chandler –Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (1878–1880)
• Alexander Tilloch Galt –Minister of Finance (1867), Founder of theNorth Western Coal and Navigation Company andLethbridge, AB
• John Hamilton Gray –Premier of New Brunswick (1856–1857)
• Thomas Heath Haviland – Senator (1873–1879),Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (1879–1884)
• William Alexander Henry –Mayor of Halifax (1870–1871),Supreme Court Justice (1875–1888)
• John A. Macdonald^[4] – FirstPrime Minister (1867–1873, 1878–1891)
• William Henry Pope – Lawyer, Newspaper Editor, Colonial Secretary
• Samuel Leonard Tilley – Pharmacist, Premier of New Brunswick (1861–1865), Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick (1885–1893 and 1873–1878), Originator of "Dominion" inCanada's name

Governors

• Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis –Governor General of Canada (1946–1952)
• LordFrederick Arthur Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby – Governor General of Canada (1888–1893), Namesake for theStanley Cup
• John Graves Simcoe –British Army general, Founder ofYork (Toronto), IntroducedEnglish common law, FirstLieutenant Governor of Upper Canada (1791–1796)
• Henry Cockshutt –Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1921–1927)
• William Mulock – (Acting)Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1931–1932),Postmaster General (1896–1905)
• John Keiller MacKay – 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1957-1963)

Politicians

• John Abbott – Prime Minister (1891–1892)
• Richard Bedford Bennett – Prime Minister (1930–1935)
• Robert Laird Borden – Prime Minister (1911–1920)
• Sir MacKenzie Bowell – Prime Minister (1894–1896)
• John Diefenbaker – Prime Minister (1957–1963)^[5]
• Thomas C. Douglas – Premier of Saskatchewan (1944–1961), Leader ofNew Democratic Party (1961–1971), father of Universal Healthcare, voted asThe Greatest Canadian
• George Alexander Drew – Premier of Ontario (1943–1948)
• George Howard Ferguson – Premier of Ontario (1923–1930)
• Donald Methuen Fleming –Minister of Finance (1957–1962),Minister of Justice and Attorney General (1962–1963)
• Ezra Butler Eddy – Businessman, Mayor ofHull, Quebec, Member ofLegislative Assembly of Quebec
• Leslie Miscampbell Frost – Premier of Ontario (1949–1961)
• Mitchell Frederick Hepburn – Youngest Premier of Ontario (1934–1942) at age 37
• Alexander Keith – Mayor of Halifax (1853–1853), President of Legislative Council of Nova Scotia (1867–1873), Founder ofAlexander Keith's Brewery
• James Kirkpatrick Kerr – Lawyer, Senator (1903–1916), Speaker of the Senate (1909–1911)
• John Ross Matheson – Lawyer, Judge, MP forLeeds (1961–1968), Helped develop themaple leaf flag and theOrder of Canada.
• Nathan Phillips –Mayor of Toronto (1955–1962)
• Erasmus James Philipps – Member of the Nova Scotia Council (1730-1760)

  

• Alexander Cameron Rutherford – First Premier of Alberta (1905–1910)
• Allen Bristol Aylesworth – Senator, MP forYork North,Postmaster General of Canada
• George Ryerson – MPP for Toronto
• Joey Smallwood – First Premier ofNewfoundland, self-dubbed "The Last Father of Confederation"
• William Grenville "Bill" Davis – 18th Premier of Ontario
• Bob Bailey – MPP forSarnia-Lambton
• John Babington Macaulay Baxter - 19th Premier of New Brunswick
• John Keiller MacKay – 19th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (1957)
• Colin Thatcher – Minister of Energy Saskatchewan, (1975-1984), convicted of murdering his wife, St. George's Lodge No. 136, Moose Jaw, SK^[6]

Businessmen

• Harold Ballard – Businessman and Sportsman
• Samuel Bronfman – Businessman and Philanthropist
• John David Eaton – Businessman, Member of theEaton family
• John Bayne Maclean^[7] – Publisher, Founder ofMaclean's magazine, theFinancial Post and theMaclean Publishing Company
• Colonel Samuel McLaughlin – Businessman, Philanthropist, Founder of theMcLaughlin Motor Car Company
• John Molson – Businessman, Founder ofMolson Brewery
• Joseph Seagram – Founder ofSeagram Distilleries
• Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet – Newspaper Proprietor,Fleet Street Mogul, Namesake forRoy Thomson Hall, AppointedKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire

Military

• Major-General Malcolm Smith Mercer - Major General, The Queen's Own Rifles
• Arthur William Currie – Inspector-General of the Canadian Army and vice-chancellor ofMcGill University
• Alexander Roberts Dunn^[8] – Soldier, awarded theVictoria Cross
• John MacGregor – (1889–1952) Born in Scotland, lived in Powell River B.C., fought in 2 world wars, awarded theVictoria Cross
• Sam Steele – Head of theRCMP Yukon detachment during theKlondike Gold Rush
• General James Wolfe – Victor in 1759 over theFrench at theBattle of the Plains of Abraham inQuebec
• Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea) –Six Nations ReserveMohawk leader
• Captain Arthur Roy Brown –WWI flying ace
• Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May –WWI flying ace, final pursuit ofManfred von Richthofen
• Sir William Dillon Otter – First Canadian-bornChief of the General Staff

Science and Engineering

• Sandford Fleming – Engineer, Inventor, Founding member of theRoyal Society of Canada, Founder of theCanadian Institute, Inventor of WorldwideTime Zones
• Kivas Tully – Chief Provincial Architect for Ontario (1868–1896),Imperial Service Order Recipient
• Henry Asbjørn Larsen – Arctic explorer
• William George Storm - Architect ofSt. Andrew's Church (Toronto) and parts of theUniversity of Toronto

Sports

• Francis Michael “King” Clancy – NHL hockey player
• Charles William "The Big Bomber" Conacher, Sr. – NHL hockey player
• Norman Dawe – ice hockey and sports executive^[9]
• Hanson Dowell – ice hockey administrator and politician, Master at Ionic Lodge No. 73^[10]
• George Dudley – ice hockey administrator and lawyer^[11]
• W. A. Fry – sports administrator and newspaper publisher^[12]
• Jake Gaudaur, Jr. – CFL football player and 4th Commissioner
• W. B. George – sports administrator and agriculturalist^[13]
• Doug Grimston – ice hockey administrator^[14]
• Tim Horton^[15] – Hockey Player, Co-founder ofTim Hortons
• Atholl Layton – Professional wrestler
• Dr. James Naismith – Inventor ofBasketball
• Art Potter – ice hockey administrator^[16]
• Frank Sargent – executive in ice hockey and curling^[17]
• Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor – Hockey Player
• W. F. Taylor – ice hockey administrator and dentist^[18]
• Angus James Walters – Captain of theBluenose
• William "Whipper" John Potts – World champion professional wrestler

Clergy

• Frederick Kingston –Bishop ofDiocese of Algoma (1939–1944),Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada (1947–1949)
• Most Rev. Derwyn Trevor Owen^[19] –Bishop of Niagara (1925–1932),Bishop of Toronto (1932–1934), Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada (1934–1947)
• Clarendon Worrell^[20] –Bishop of Nova Scotia (1904–1915), Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada (1932–1934)

Arts

• Glenn Ford – Actor fromClassical Hollywood cinema includingSuperman (1978)
• Watson Kirkconnell - Canadian poet, literary translator, and father ofmulticulturalism in Canada.
• Robert William Service – Writer, Author of PoemsThe Shooting of Dan McGrew andThe Cremation of Sam McGee
• Gordon Sinclair – Journalist, Writer, Commentator, Known forThe Americans

Others

• Herbert Allan Borden Leal – Civil servant and academic
• Hon. Dana H. Porter –Chief Justice of theCourt of Appeal for Ontario
• Dr. Edward Earle Shouldice
• Robert Butchart
• Kenneth Jewell Colpoys Dunstan

• Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, King Street West,Hamilton, Ontario
• Toronto Masonic Temple, 888 Yonge Street. No longer affiliated with Freemasonry
• Masonic Temple (St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Montreal Masonic Memorial Temple, Montreal, QC
• Saint John Masonic Temple, Saint John, New Brunswick
• St. Mark's Masonic Lodge, Baddeck, NS

There is a number of various supreme organisations (Grand Lodges, National Lodges, Grand Orients, and Federations) active in Canada representing a number of regularity / amity networks along with a number of independent lodges.

Supreme Body	Jurisdiction	Established	HQ	Number of Lodges	Membership	Regularity
Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario (GLCPOO)	Ontario	1855	Hamilton	560	36,733[21]	UGLE
Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons Province of Ontario and Jurisdiction	Ontario Quebec[22]	1856[22]		10[23]		UGLE
Grand Lodge of Manitoba	Manitoba	1875[24]	Winnipeg	54	1,971[21]	UGLE
Grand Lodge of Newfoundland and Labrador	Newfoundland and Labrador	1997	St. John's	30	1,533[21]	UGLE
Grand Lodge of Quebec	Quebec	1869	Montréal	77[25]	3,771[21]	UGLE
Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia	Nova Scotia	1866[24]	Halifax	114	3,473[21]	UGLE
Grand Lodge of New Brunswick	New Brunswick	1867[24]	Saint John	51	2,568[21]	UGLE
Grand Lodge of Prince Edward Island	Prince Edward Island	1875[24]		15[26]	626[21]	UGLE
Grand Lodge of Saskatchewan	Saskatchewan	1906[27]	Regina	58	2,365[21]	UGLE
Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon	British Columbia Yukon	1871	Vancouver	143[28]	6,004[21]	UGLE
Grand Lodge of Alberta	Alberta	1905	Calgary	119[29]	6,242[21]	UGLE
Grande Loge ANI du Canada[citation needed]	Canada	2009	Montreal	3		CLIPSAS
Fédération canadienne du Droit Humain	Canada			8 (6 in French, 1 in English, 1 in Spanish)[30]		DH
Grand Orient du Québec	Quebec	2012		4[31]
Grande Loge Nationale du Canada	Canada	1985		16[32]		CLIPSAS
Gran Logia de Lengua Española de Canada (Spanish Language)	Canada			5[33]

Membership numbers could be overstated, as membership in multiple lodges is actively encouraged.

There appears to be a number of other supreme bodies in the country, including Grand Orient de France Amerique du Nord, Obédience Mixte Nord-Américaine: George Washington Union, Grand Orient du Canada, Grande Loge Autonome du Québec, Grande Loge Mixte du Québec, but the information on them is not readily available.

TheGrand Lodge of Scotland has a District Grand Lodge of Newfoundland and Labrador responsible for 11 lodges.^[34]

The Grand Lodge of Alberta also includes the Northwest Territories, particularly a lodge in Yellowknife, although there used to be a lodge in Inuvik in the 2000s (Far North Lodge).

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• Freemasonry

• Prince Hall Grand Lodge Free and Accepted Masons Province of Ontario and Jurisdiction
• Grande Loge du Québec
• Grand Lodge of Nova Scotia
• Grand Lodge of New Brunswick
• Grand Lodge of Saskatchewan
• Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon
• Grand Lodge of Alberta
• Grande Loge ANI du Canada
• Fédération canadienne du Droit Humain
• Grand Orient du Québec
• Grande Loge Nationale du Canada
• Gran Logia de Lengua Española de Canada
• Grand Orient de France Amerique du Nord
• Obédience Mixte Nord-Américaine : George Washington Union
• Grand Orient du Canada
• Grande Loge Autonome du Québec
• Grande Loge Mixte du Québec

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