Grand Lodge of AF & AM of Canada, 1978

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Inthe Province ofOntario
PROCEEDINGS
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MOST WORSHIPFUL BROTHER
ROBERT EDWIN DAVIES
GRAND MASTER
GRAND LODGE
& OF CANADA
A.F. A.M.
In the Province of Ontario
PROCEEDINGS
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THIRD
ANNUAL COMMUNICATION
HELD IN
THE CITY OF
TORONTO
July 19th, A.D. 1978, A.L. 5978
The Property of and ordered to be read in all
the Lodges and preserved.
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A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF OUR
GRAND MASTER
Robert Edwin Davies was born in Mount Forest,
Ontario, October 5, 1931. Here he received his elementary
and secondary school education. Always a good scholar and
a fine athlete, he was the recipient of several academic and
athletic awards and trophies. His extracurricular activities
as President of the student council and quarterback of the
football team attest to his leadership ability even at this ear-
ly age.
In 1948, during his final school year, owing to the sud-
den illness and subsequent passing of his father, he took
over the family retail business and has operated it most suc-
cessfully ever since.
In 1954 he married Annabelle Christie of Hopeville
and the Davies now have three children, t—he eldest, Kathy, a
graduate of the University of Waterloo now enrolled at
the Ontario Teacher Education College, Hamilton; Robert,
presently at home in the family business; and the youngest,
Lynn, a student at the Mount Forest District High School.
He is a member of the United Church and over the
years has served on many committees and boards, both in
the Church and also in the Sunday School.
Always interested in his community, your Grand
Master is a past director of the Mount Forest Boy Scout
Group, past director of the Mount Forest Louise Marshall
Hospital Board, former member of the Mount Forest
Cameron Highlanders Pipe Band, and past President ofthe
Mount Forest Investment Club. His many hobbies include
all sports, and amateur radio where he is the holder of an
Advanced Amateur Radio License and can be identified
around the world by the call sign VE3ERD.
Being initiated, passed and raised in St. Alban's Lodge,
No. 200, in 1952, he became Worshipful Master in 1960,
and in 1961 was elected District Deputy Grand Master of
Grey District. March 1964 saw him appointed the
Representative of the Grand Lodge of Louisiana which
Grand Lodge conferred upon him the rank of Past Junior
Grand Warden. In July ofthe same year hewas appointed a
member of the Board of General Purposes of our Grand
Lodge, a position to which he has been subsequently elected
for five successive two-year terms. Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Fraternal Dead in 1971 and 1972, he was then ap-
pointed for 1973 and 1974 Chairman of Benevolence, a
committee with which he had been closely associated during
his entire tenure as a member ofthe Board ofGeneral Pur-
poses. He was elected Deputy Grand Master in July 1975
and Grand Master in July 1977.
Our Grand Master is a member of the Royal City
Lodge of Perfection; Past Most Wise Sovereign of the
Guelph Chapter Rose Croix; member of the Moore
Sovereign Consistory; Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
of Canada; a member of the Ancient and Arabic Order
Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Mocha Temple, London; the
Royal Order of Scotland and was coroneted Honorary
Inspector-General, 33°, at the Annual Meeting of the
Supreme Council, A. & A.S.R. of Canada, in Hamilton,
September 1977.
In 1961, Robert E. Davies was the youngest District
Deputy Grand Master in the Jurisdiction and now at 45
years of age becomes one of the youngest to be elected
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the
Province of Ontario.