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Lodge AccommodationBy R.W.Bro. R.W.L.Clarke On researching the minutes I have discovered that the only reference to where Brant Lodge has met is at the Masonic Hall. No location seems to be included in the minutes. I have started to put the address where we meet in each month in the minutes. According to the minutes, the Lodge Hall was burned down on St. John’s Day June 24 in 1869. The election that year was held on June 22, 1869 and the installation followed on St. John’s Day in the Doric Lodge Hall. The minutes were lost in the fire but according to legend some brothers entered the Hall during the fire and retrieved the pillars. These pillars are the ones as you enter the Lodge. There was a compartment in the base of the pillars and this must have been where the register was located because we have the original register of Brant Lodge 45. In the minutes dated July 8, 1869 two proposals were made by the accommodation committee. The one accepted by the Lodge was west of B. G. Tisdale’s store at Colborne and Market. Mr. Tisdale planned to build an addition to his building 132ft. long and 30 ft. wide. He agreed to rent the upper floor to Brant Lodge for $200.00 the first year and $225.00 thereafter. Brant Lodge approached Doric Lodge No. 121 and the Mount Horeb Chapter to rent with them. Again there is no mention when they started to meet there. During the interval they may have met at Line’s as their reception was held there on Installation night. In 1896 they moved to the Stratford Building, King and Dalhousie until it was razed. In 1910 the Lodges moved to larger quarters in the Temple Building, 76-78 Dalhousie next to the Post Office. In 1953 they built a grand building at 192 Greenwich St. because of Masonic growth in the City. |