On 26 July 2017, the Cowichan Valley Shrine Club presented Certificates of Appreciation to Cowichan Collision, 5194 Mearns Road, and Mark’s Instant Sign Shop, 750 Jubilee Street, two local businesses which provided their services, free of charge, for the Cowichan Valley Shrine Club‘s antique fire truck, which is used in Gizeh Shrine fund raising for Shriners Hospital For Children.
Cowichan Collision painted the fire truck while Mark’s Instant Sign Shop provided the new decals on the fire truck.
The next regular meeting of Temple Lodge, No.33 will be on 13 June 2017 at 7:30 p.m. at the Duncan Masonic Temple. All Visiting Brethren are very welcome to attend.
Bear in mind that this is our Casual BBQ meeting. Casual dress.
The Regular Meeting of Temple Lodge No. 33 for April 2017 will be held at Duncan Masonic Temple, Tuesday 11 April 2017 at 7:30 p.m.
All Visiting Brethren are very welcome to attend.
Temple Lodge No. 33 will be holding its annual Installation of Officers on 1 April 2017 at 1:00 p.m. at Duncan Masonic Temple, 163 Canada Avenue, Duncan, B.C..
We will have a pre-Installation lunch and social starting at 11:30 a.m.
All Visiting Brethren are very welcome to attend.
Continue reading Temple Lodge Installation of Officers for 2017
The Internet is a great tool but being online requires some vigilance.
We have just been advised by an Internet domain registration company in China that a Chinese company, TranTing Trade Company, has applied to register variants of our www.templelodge33.ca domain name.
The domain name registration company has asked whether we are associated in any way with TranTing Trade Company – we are not – and whether we authorized TranTing Trade Company to use variants of our templelodge33.ca web domain name – we definitely did not and have not and we have advised the domain name registration company accordingly.
The variations of our templelodge33.ca domain name which TranTing Trade Company has applied to register are:
Brand Name:templelodge33
Domain Names:
“templelodge33.asia
templelodge33.in
templelodge33.co.in
templelodge33.cn
templelodge33.com.cn
templelodge33.net.cn
templelodge33.org.cn
templelodge33.cn.com
templelodge33.com.hk
templelodge33.hk
templelodge33.com.tw
templelodge33.tw
templelodge33.中国 ”
Unfortunately, we cannot prevent this Chinese company registering these web domain names unless we register them first. The cost of registering all possible worldwide variants of our domain name is prohibitive so we do not consider that a reasonable option.
But we have registered the top level domain name variant, templelodge33.com, so that others cannot use it.
We formally notify others that we are in no way associated with TranTing Trade Company, that we are the first user and registrant of the Internet domain name “templelodge33” and that our “templelodge33” domain name is used only in connection with Temple Lodge No. 33, A.F. & A.M., Duncan, B.C., Canada. Any other use of our “templelodge33” domain name in any Internet domain registration or variant suffix is not connected or associated with, or endorsed by, Temple Lodge No. 33, A.F. & A.M., Duncan, B.C., Canada in any way and Temple Lodge No. 33, A.F. & A.M., Duncan, B.C., Canada does not authorize its use or endorse any product(s), good(s), service(s), statement(s), claim(s) etc. which may be associated with it.
2 March 2017
Temple Lodge No. 33 will be holding an Emergent Meeting at Duncan Masonic Temple on 28 February 2017 at 7:00 p.m. to Raise a Brother to the Sublime Degree of a Master Mason.
The District Deputy Grand Master will also be making his Official Visit to Temple Lodge No. 33 at this meeting.
All Visiting Brethren are very welcome to attend. Please note the 7:00 p.m. start time, rather than our usual meeting start time of 7:30 p.m.
The Official Visit of Most Worshipful Brother
Ian Bowman
Grand Master of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon
to District No. 27 will be held on March 9th 2017, 4:00 PM at
St John’s Lodge No. 21,
St. John’s Masonic Temple, 26 Gatacre Street, Ladysmith, BC
Masonic Banquet: 6:00 PM
St. Mary’s Catholic Church Hall
1135-4th Avenue, Ladysmith, BC
Tickets $30. Each or $50 per Couple
–Tickets available from–
The Secretaries of St. John’s #21, Temple #33, Malahat #107, Chemainus #114, & Admiral #170
For more information contact R.W.B. Joel Chiri, District Deputy Grand Master, District 27 at:
Email: jchiri@shaw.ca Phone 250-245-4797
On 23 January 2017 the Temple Lodge No.33 Historian and webmaster, W.B. Mark Anderson, attended a lecture at the Congregation Emanu-El synagogue in Victoria which focused on a University of Victoria Anthropology course, ANTH 395, which is using the Victoria Jewish Cemetery as a teaching aid for archaeological methods. (April 2017 Update: ANTH 395 has been reclassified as ANTH 367)
One of the projects this course is undertaking is to identify the unmarked burial plots of the Victoria Jewish Cemetery and identify the people whose grave locations have been forgotten.
One of those unmarked graves is that of M.W.B. Marcus Wolfe (died 1896), Past Grand Master, whose grave in Victoria Jewish Cemetery is unmarked and its exact location not known.
Here are the website and Facebook page for the ANTH 395 course.
We are very honoured that students in the ANTH 395 course have been regularly using our Temple Lodge No.33 website as a research tool for their work in the Victoria Jewish Cemetery.
Here are some graves of deceased Freemasons in Victoria Jewish Cemetery:
Morris Price died in 1861 and was the first interment in Victoria Jewish Cemetery.
Rabbi Elias Friedlander was the Chief Rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El.
Judah Phillip Davies and his son Joshua Phillip Davies were auctioneers and leading figures in the late 19th century Jewish community on Victoria.
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OFFICIAL VISIT TO DISTRICT 5 OF THE GRAND MASTER
MOST WORSHIPFUL BROTHER IAN BOWMAN
DATE: MONDAY, 9 JANUARY 2017, 4:00 P.M.
VENUE: MORPETH MASONIC TEMPLE, 620 MORPETH AVE., NANAIMO, B.C.
BANQUET TO FOLLOW AT ST. PAUL’S ANGLICAN CHURCH HALL, 100 CHAPEL ST. NANAIMO, B.C.
COCKTAILS 5:30, TICKETS $30.00 per PERSON
TICKETS AVAILABLE THROUGH LODGE SECRETARIES OR R.W.B. NEIL WESTMACOTT, THE DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND MASTER OF DISTRICT 5
LADIES HOSTED SOCIAL EVENT DOWNSTAIRS AT MORPETH HALL DURING THE LODGE MEETING
HOST LODGE: NANAIMO LODGE, No. 110
The January 2017 Regular Meeting of Temple Lodge, No. 33 will be held on 10 January 2017, 7:30 p.m. at Duncan Masonic Temple.
All Visiting Brethren are very welcome to attend.
Please note that there will also be a Board of General Purposes at 6:45 p.m., 10 January 2017 prior to the January 2017 Regular Meeting, to discuss some Temple Lodge No.33 plans for 2017. A light dinner will be held at 6:00 p.m., before the Board of General Purposes.
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