As part of Humber Lodge’s 150 Anniversary taking place in 2024, we will be sharing excerpts from historical documents and photos from the archives.
In November of 1906, the District Deputy Grand Master made his annual visit to Humber Lodge, who were by that time meeting at the Oddfellows Hall on Church Street in the town of Weston. Below is an excerpt from his report back to Grand Lodge on the condition of Humber Lodge at the time.
Humber Lodge, No. 305, Weston: I visited this lodge on November 29th, 1906. W. Bro. Gemmel presided. All his officers and a large number of his Past Masters were present. R. W. Bro. E. M. Carlton, W. Bros. W. J. Douglas, R. J. Gibson, J. A. McKenzie. J. Burke, J. E. Brown, of York Lodge, and J. Haggis, of Stanley Lodge, and R. E. Porte, of Mimico Lodge, were present, also Bro. H. C. Irwin, the Junior Warden of St. Andrew’s Lodge.
The Humber lodge room has been very much improved and decorated and supplied with electric lighting and is extremely comfortable. The Master and officers did their work very well, and as the junior officers are composed of a number of bright young citizens a successful future is promised.
The financial condition of the lodge is good, and a special building fund has been started. I
trust that in the not distant future this lodge will have a home of its own. I again visited this lodge fraternally on June 25th and installed the officers for the year, when W. Bro. George H. Scott was installed as Master. The lodge has shown very considerable progress and is in
an extremely healthy condition.The village of Weston itself is growing rapidly in population, as well as the country surrounding it, and we may look for a material advance in this lodge.
It took another 17 years from the start of this building fund for the building, completion and dedication of the Weston Masonic Temple in 1924. It is with great thanks and gratitude to these past members of Humber Lodge from over 100 years ago that we are blessed with this wonderful Masonic home and cornerstone of the Weston Community.
