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Sovereign Great Priory of Canada fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1852-1989.

Reference:

R3029-0-2-E, MG28-I446

Type of material:

Textual material, Objects (including medals and pins), Photographs, Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98329

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Sovereign Great Priory of Canada fonds
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Fonds includes:

5 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1852-1989.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.11 m of textual records.
35 medals 3 gilt-enamel.
57 photographs b&w.
2 videocassettes (2 h).

Language of material:

English
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Sovereign Great Priory of Canada of the United Orders of Malta and the Temple [graphic material]

Sovereign Great Priory of Canada of the United Orders of Malta and the Temple [graphic material]

Sovereign Great Priory of Canada fonds [graphic material]
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Fonds consists of the records of the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada, its Districts and Preceptories, together with a few items of more general masonic miscellanea. These include records of the Sovereign Great Priory itself, consisting mainly of rituals, 1852-1921; histories of Templarism in Canada, ca. 1905-1966; a letter, 1934, appointing a Grand Almoner; and some proclamations, reports, etc., relating to its annual assemblies, [n.d.], 1932-1987. Also, a few district records consisting of minutes, 1908-1969, for the Kingston-Ottawa District, and a history, 1984, of the London District. The greater part of the fonds consists of preceptory records, which include substantial records for preceptories in Brockville, Ont., 1872-1972, and Ottawa, Ont., 1893-1971, as well as a number of preceptory histories and a few other items - such as a ritual, 1867-1868, and by-laws, 1922 and 1969 - pertaining to various preceptories in British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario (the majority), Quebec, and Saskatchewan.

The fonds contains medals from the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada of the United Orders of Malta and the Temple, including 3 medallic presentation jewels, [ca. 1900].

The fonds also contains photographs depicting various masonic activities and portraits of members.

Also included are video recordings of the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada's 104th annual assembly, 1987.

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Sovereign Great Priory of Canada

Biography/Administrative history:

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Sovereign Great Priory of Canada : Canadian Templarism dates from 1782, when an encampment (later, preceptory) is known to have existed in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1800, a second Templar warrant was issued under the authority of Craft Lodge No. 6 at Kingston, Upper Canada. Neither of these lodges flourished, however, and the continuous history of the movement should actually be dated from 7 October 1855, when Captain William James Bury McLeod Moore (fl.1831-d. 1890), an ardent freemason, exchanged the dormant Craft Lodge warrant for a new warrant to establish the Provincial Grand Conclave at Kingston, Canada West, under the name of Hugh de Payens.

On 11 May 1868, the Provincial Grand Conclave's name was formally changed to the Grand Priory of Canada. At the Annual Meeting of the Grand Priory on 7 July, 1884, the organization became a Supreme and Independent body under the title of the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada, Knights Templar.

The object of the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada is to promote Christian ideals. Membership is restricted to men who declare themselves to be Christians and who are willing to submit to and obey the usages, customs and statutes of the Order.

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Textual records: (Paper) Finding Aid No. 1725 provides a brief historical introduction to the collection; a categorically arranged descriptive list of the whole fonds, which provides the file and box numbers for material in the Manuscript Division; and separate lists of the medals and insignia transferred to the Visual and Sound Archives Division in 1987, the printed material transferred to the Library of the National Archives of Canada in 1988 and 1994, and the photographs transferred to the Visual and Sound Archives Division in 1994. MSS1725

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1725
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000330.pdf

Moving images: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level descriptions.

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General note:

Acquired in 1987 from the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada, through the courtesy of its Grand Historian, Mr. Rolf Latté of Ottawa, Ontario, and subsequently added to in 1988-1990. In 1989, material relating to Gondemar Preceptory No. 16 and Raymond Dupuis Priory, Brockville, Ontario, was acquire together with other Brockville masonic material.
In 1993, the Brockville Templar records were separated from the rest of the Brockville masonic material (which is catalogued in MG 28, I 483) and added to this fonds as volumes 5-9.
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Christianity - Canada, 1852-1989 Bethlehem Preceptory No. 69 K.T. (Nanaimo, B.C.), 1926-1987

Belleville (Ont.) - Freemasons, [ca.1961] Carleton Chapter No. 16 [AF & AM] (Carleton Co. Ont.), 1915

Bridgetown (N.S.) - Freemasons, 1930 John H. Chalmers, 1926

Brockville (Ont.) - Freemasons, 1871-[ca.1987] L.F. Crothers, (Canon), 1956

Freemasons - Brockville, Ont., [ca.1987] Damascus Commandery K.T. 5 (Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.), 1907

Freemasons - Des Moines, Washington State, U.S.A., 1989 Eddy Lodge No. 41 [AF & AM] (Eddy Township, Que.), 1903

Freemasons - Guelph, Ont., [ca. 1969] C. R. Flatters, 1955-1956

Freemasons - Halifax, N.S., [ca.1982] Reg. Forest-Jones, 1984

Freemasons - Hamilton, Ont., 1964 Gondemar Preceptory No. 16 K.T. (Brockville, Ont.), 1872-[ca.1987]

Freemasons - Kingston, Ont., 1908-1969 Grand Priory of Canada, 1868-1884

Freemasons - London, Ont., 1983-1984 King Edward Preceptory and Priory No. 24 K.T. (Winnipeg, Man.), 1980

Freemasons - Malta, 1926 Rolf Latté, 1987-1988

Freemasons - Montreal, Que., 1920 Allan A. Leal, 1984

Freemasons - Montreal, Que., 1925 N.B. MacPhie, 1934

Freemasons - Montreal, Que., n.d., 1988 R.G. Madill, 1942

Freemasons - Nanaimo, B.C., 1926-1987 Melita Preceptory No. 63 K.T. (Montreal, Que.), 1970, 1988

Freemasons - Nova Scotia, 1930 Moore, William James Bury McLeod (Capt.) (fl.1831-d.1890), 1852, 1868

Freemasons - Ontario, 1894-[ca.1987] Offanto Preceptory and Priory No. 24 (Owen Sound, Ont.), 1907

Freemasons - Ottawa, Ont., 1894-1971 Ottawa Preceptory No. 32 K.T. (Ottawa, Ont.) 1893-1971

Freemasons - Owen Sound, Ont., 1907, 1989 Plantagenet Preceptory No. 8 K.T. (St. Catharines, Ont.), 1867-1868, 1922

Freemasons - Quebec, 1879, 1903, 1920, 1969 Raymond Dupuis Priory K.T. (Brockville, Ont.), 1872-[ca.1987]

Freemasons - Regina, Sask., 1988 Richard Coeur de Lion Preceptory No. 7 K.T. (Montreal, Que.), 1963

Freemasons - Rituals, 1852-1955 J.E.R. Ross, 1949-1950

Freemasons - Royal Arch - Ontario, 1915 Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children (Montreal, Que.), 1925

Freemasons - St. Catharines, Ont., 1868, 1922 William de la More the Martyr Preceptory No. 25 K.T. (Quebec, Que.), 1969

Freemasons - Toronto, Ont., [ca.1954], [ca.1979] William Henry Whyte, [ca.1917]

Freemasons - Winnipeg, Man., 1980

Knights Templar - Canada, 1852-1989

Rites and ceremonies - Templar Masons - Canada, 1852-1955

Templar Masonry - Canada, 1852-1989

Templars - Canada, 1852-1989
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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115-020374-9
117-020088-5
117-020115-6
118-020222-8
1987-102 PIC
1987-103 PIC
1989-0072 MISA
1989-553 DAP
1989/0167
1990/0183
1994-409 DAP
1994-410 DAP
1994-411 DAP
2001-00680-2
87-246
87-247
94-211
94-212
94-214
949 (1988-09-09)
MG28-I446

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-I446
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Conditions of access:

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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1725] 132

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Medals

[Consultation 90 Open]

13331--13335;

[Consultation 90 Open]

14040--14042;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [1989-553] C-002959

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R3029] 11--15

[Consultation 90 Open]

Moving images (video)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Medals: No restrictions. Various copyright. Credit: National Archives of Canada. Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright unknown or expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Moving images: Reproduction and use in any form requires the written permission of the copyright holder.

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