W. & D. Downey Duke of Connaught Lodge No. 64 works under a Warrant issued by the Grand Lodge of British Columbia issued in 1912. Meeting on the first Tuesday of the month, with the exception of July ...

Born in Ontario and educated at McGill University, Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Mass., and developed basketball’s original 13 rules Author of ...

While the association of the pentagram with vampires and werewolves is common in western fiction, in this Japanese series the pentagram only appears briefly in a gas station sign. Based on the novel ...

Freemason Harold Gray (1894-1968)— a charter member of Lombard Lodge No. 1098, Illinois — created Little Orphan Annie in 1924. Little Orphan Annie said about Daddy Warbucks: "With all his mines an' ...

An early pioneer in modern advertising, John Wanamaker was an American merchant and political figure, founding the first department store in Philadelphia in 1875, and serving as United States ...

Earl Jellicoe GCB OM GCVO PC (the Right Honourable Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe), 1st Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa (UK 1918), and Earl Jellicoe and Viscount Brocas of Southampton (UK 1925). Jellicoe led ...