Grand Lodge of Quebec

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The Grand Lodge of Quebec was established on October 20th, 1869. This important event in our history occurred about a hundred and ten years after the introduction of Freemasonry into the part of Canada now known as the Province of Quebec, by the Masons serving in the Regiments which formed the British Force under the command of General James Wolfe. The battle which decided the fate of the City of Quebec, to which General Wolfe committed his army, was fought on September 13th, 1759, but it was not until the 29th of that month that the British troops marched into the City. Captain John Knox wrote in his ''Journal of the Campaigns in North America," under the date December 27th, 1759, that "the anniversary of St. John's Day was duly observed by the several Lodges in this garrison." Until 1920 this celebration was believed to have been the first meeting of the Craft in Quebec, but in that year there came into the possession of the Grand Lodge of Quebec a small book in which James Thompson, a Sergeant in the 78th Regiment (Fraser's Highlanders'), had kept a record of the early meetings of the Craft in Quebec, as well as copies of letters written and received by him during the years he was Grand Secretary of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Quebec. From this record it is now established that the first joint meeting of the Lodges in the garrison was held on November 28th, 1759, which "was as soon as Convenient after the Surrender of this place to His Brittanic Majesty's Arms." ...

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