
A History of True Brothers Lodge No. 8 - Est. 1869
This article is reprinted from The Pattern Set For Us: A History of the Concordant and Related Bodies of Freemasonry Past and Present on Prince Edward Island with the kind permission of the author, RW Bro. George Doughart, Grand Historian.
The Warrant from the Grand Lodge of England to establish True Brothers Lodge in Tryon was dated January 28, 1869. The petitioners for the Warrant were Alexander Dunbar, John Muirhead, John Lang, John MacWilliams, Henry Twining, John D. Reid, Albert Compton and others. The first principal Officers were
Worshipful Master | Bro. John Muirhead |
Senior Warden | Bro. John MacWilliams |
Junior Warden | Bro. John Lang |
True Brothers Lodge was No. 1251 on the Registry of the Grand Lodge of England and the number was inscribed on the Worshipful Master’s Jewel that is still in use in the Lodge.