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The Canadas.
THE CANADAS .
"We were enabled to announce in our last—even , we hare reason to believe ^ before the intelligence was received at the Grand Secretary ' s Office—that not only had the Provincial G-rand Lodge of Canada West confirmed its resolution for throwing off its allegiance to the G-rand Lodge of England ; but that the attempt to form a fusion with the previously constituted Grand Lodge of Canada—a body recognized by the Grand Lodge of Ireland , and
many of the governing bodies of the United States—had failed ; and the Provincial Grand Lodge had therefore started another Grand
Lodge of Canada on its own account . We have so steadily advocated the claims of our Canadian Brethren to greater attention than they for a time received from the authorities of England , that we have no fear that our motives will be misunderstood when we express our
utter condemnation of the course pursued by the Provincial Grand Lodge , in constituting themselves into a body , which can only lead to a greater disunion amongst the Ereemasons of Canada and complicate still further the already entangled relations with the Grand
Lodge of England . We could have hoped that when the Provincial Grand Lodge of Canada West found they could not co-operate with the Independent Grand Lodge of Canada , they would have accepted , as a basis for reunion with the mother Grand Lodge , the conciliatory propositions of the M . W . G . M ., the Earl of Zetland , and returned vol . in . 5 T
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Canadas.
THE CANADAS .
"We were enabled to announce in our last—even , we hare reason to believe ^ before the intelligence was received at the Grand Secretary ' s Office—that not only had the Provincial G-rand Lodge of Canada West confirmed its resolution for throwing off its allegiance to the G-rand Lodge of England ; but that the attempt to form a fusion with the previously constituted Grand Lodge of Canada—a body recognized by the Grand Lodge of Ireland , and
many of the governing bodies of the United States—had failed ; and the Provincial Grand Lodge had therefore started another Grand
Lodge of Canada on its own account . We have so steadily advocated the claims of our Canadian Brethren to greater attention than they for a time received from the authorities of England , that we have no fear that our motives will be misunderstood when we express our
utter condemnation of the course pursued by the Provincial Grand Lodge , in constituting themselves into a body , which can only lead to a greater disunion amongst the Ereemasons of Canada and complicate still further the already entangled relations with the Grand
Lodge of England . We could have hoped that when the Provincial Grand Lodge of Canada West found they could not co-operate with the Independent Grand Lodge of Canada , they would have accepted , as a basis for reunion with the mother Grand Lodge , the conciliatory propositions of the M . W . G . M ., the Earl of Zetland , and returned vol . in . 5 T