Masonic Lodge #54 - Creston, BC
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N 49° 05.876 W 116° 30.817
11U E 535505 N 5438456
At 309 10th Avenue North, this Masonic Hall could be a busy place.
Waymark Code: WMKDQE
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 03/26/2014
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Math Teacher
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Home to the Masons, it is also home to the Order of the Eastern Star Chapter #55, the Shrine Club #35 and the Cascade Council Cryptic Rite.

The building appears to be a a 1930s or 40s style, about on a par with the Legion Hall a couple of blocks away. Actually it is (1930s, that is), as the corner stone tells us that it was laid in 1939.

Creston Lodge #54 was chartered in 1909 under the Grand Lodge or BC&Y and is an Ancient Craft Lodge.

The Lodge meets the Third Wednesday of every month except June, when they meet on the second Wednesday and in July and August when the Lodge is dark.

How Lodge #54 came to be

In early 1908, MW Bro. Francis Bowser gave permission for a Lodge of instruction to be held at Moyie, on the recommendation of Cranbrook Lodge, No. 34. There were also applications to him for a lodge at Creston, which he laid over awaiting a report from the R.W. Bro. Irvine, the D.D.G.M. of District No. 6.

A settlement was growing up at Creston on the Crow's Nest Pass Railway, 16 miles from Kootenay Landing, west of Nelson. Like all the growing places in the province the resident freemasons were anxious to have a masonic lodge. Accordingly, in 1908 an application was made to Grand Master W. K. Houston for a dispensation for Creston Lodge, later No. 54, which was granted by him on November 3, 1908 naming W. Bro, James Cook as W. Master after receiving a report made by R.W. Bro. Edward Elwell of Cranbrook Lodge, No. 34, D.D.G.M. for District No. 8. The lodge was instituted on January 7, 1909 by R.W. Bro. E1well. The charter was granted at the Annual Communication of Grand Lodge in that year, and it was constituted on August 26, 1909 by R.W. Bro. A.B. Fenwick, of North Star Lodge, No. 30 at Fort Steele, D.D.G.M. for District No. 8.
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