Goldstream Lodge # 161
679 Goldstream Avenue
Victoria, BC V9B 2W9
sec.161@freemasonryinvictoria.com
Constituted: 1955
Ritual: Canadian
Installation: October
Meets: 1st Thursday
Goldstream Masonic Lodge is situated at 679 Goldstream Avenue in Langford, British Columbia. Goldstream Lodge was Instituted on November 8th, 1954 and Constituted on September 29th, 1955. Goldstream Lodge is numbered 161 on the registry of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and the Yukon and is represented to Grand Lodge through District 21. There are approximately 160 members of Goldstream Lodge who work within the Canadian Ritual.
The Lodge owns its’ own building through the Hall Association. Members have followed the Vision of the Founders through the recent purchase of the adjoining property and plan on the construction of a new building on the same site. The Vision Statement reads: “To exemplify our Founders’ Vision for a Lodge at this location by providing a landmark building that creates a positive image within the community”, and further “To provide a facility that fulfills and enhances the needs of the Masonic Family and preserves the sanctity of the Lodge Room”.
Goldstream Lodge members are active within the Masonic Family and are contributors to the community. During our second 50 years, the Lodge program includes encouraging Masonic Growth in the Western Communities, replacing the lodge building, and further supporting our special relationship within the Masonic Family.
Aurora Lodge # 165
Victoria Masonic Hall
650 Fisgard Street
Victoria, BC V8W 1R6
sec.165@freemasonryinvictoria.com
www.auroralodge.ca
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Haida Lodge # 166
Henderson Masonic Hall
1623 Yale Street
Victoria, BC
sec.166@freemasonryinvictoria.com
www.haidalodge.com
Constituted: 1956
Ritual: Ancient
Installation: October
Meets: 2nd Wednesday
A warm, fraternal welcome awaits you when you visit Haida Lodge. Since its inception in 1956 Haida brethren have placed a priority on the fraternal and social side of freemasonry. Indeed this emphasis on the social-side of our fraternity was incorporated into our bylaws!
By choice, Haida is a small, friendly lodge with a membership that has rarely exceeded 55 brethren. We meet at the Henderson Masonic Hall, located in Oak Bay. Although relatively small in numbers, Haida brethren are very active within lodge affairs and also well-known for staging (or supporting) a wide-variety of various social and community activities throughout the year.
The brethren have also established a positive reputation for regularly visiting other lodges within the two Victoria districts. Haida Lodge is one of the few lodges in greater-Victoria to practice ritual based on the ‘Antient Work’.
The name “Haida” was adopted based on a suggestion by one of our founding brethren, who noted the long-standing and important relationship between the Haida first nations people and British Columbia and the similarity between the Haida Nation’s long tradition of charity and our Masonic principles and values.
AIMS OF HAIDA
The founding members of Haida wished to form a Lodge that would guide its members to better exemplify the teachings of Freemasonry day by day. To this end, unanimous resolutions were passed setting forth the following principles:
- Fellowship and Masonic Education are considered paramount to degree work;
- The Lodge itself is recognized as the original and best school of instruction. In support of this principle, all members pledged attendance at all Communications
- Numerical growth of the Lodge would be gradual; and,
- Membership should never exceed one hundred in number
possible and when unable to attend, promised to ensure that the Secretary was notified;
