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Instituted October 1920                             Warranted June 1921

This is the online home of Dominion Lodge #117 of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons. We are a Member Lodge of the Masonic Fraternity operating under the jurisdiction of The Grand Lodge of Alberta. Dominion Lodge meets on the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, excepting July and August, at Freemasons' Hall, 10318 - 100th Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta.

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The Worshipful Master's Message for May 2010

Brethren,

As we prepare to raise three worthy candidates to the Master Mason's degree, please take some time to reflect on the words of Brother Carl Claudy from his 1931 book Introduction to Freemasonry:

"Archaeologists dig through the ruins of a city to uncover a forgotten one below. Push the spade in deeper and below the forgotten city is yet another, older, different, twice forgotten of men. City buried under city, patiently uncovered by the student's excavating tools - such are the symbols of Freemasonry.

"Dig through the outer shell and find a meaning; cut down through that meaning and find another; under it if you dig deeply enough you may find a third, a fourth - who shall say how many teachings?

"The Master Mason builds. Before he builds, he digs a foundation. Let him who would receive all that Freemasonry has to give dig deeply into the symbolism, the history, the philosophy, the jurisprudence and the spiritual meanings of the Ancient Craft.

"So, and only so, will he become a real Freemason. So mote it be."

See you at Lodge!

Fraternally,
WBro Dave Clarke,
Worshipful Master