Grand Orange Lodge of Canada

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(L.O.B.A.) were founded in 1894 to provide women with an opportunity to actively support Orange Principles and the exercise of benevolent activities.

Ogle Robert Gowan, the Order's first Canadian Grand Master is recognized as the founder of Canadian Orangeism. As a recent new-comer to Canada, the territory the Grand Lodge was intended oversee, he brought to his adopted land a conviction that a Branch of Orangeism should be nurtured and cultivated in Canada as a recognized organization. Its birthplace was Brockville, Ontario, a centre of Protestant and Loyalist settlers dedicated to maintaining their religious convictions and loyalty to British Institutions symbolized by their flag - the Union Jack.

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