Waverley Lodge in Guelph
This was the first meeting in a very busy and yet extremely fun and fruitful week of visits for me, as I travelled out to Guelph on a Monday evening, Jan 13, into the district of Wellington to see my friend Harry Turner Bishop installed in the East as the new WM of Waverley Lodge No. 361 and, of course, to watch VWBro Robert Jewell - who was at my Initiation and is now a proud member of The Beaches Lodge - invest their Organist. Arriving a bit early, luckily, given the traffic, the evening for me actually started off with a visit across the road, however, to an authentically cool UK pub for (these days) a rare pint of Kilkenny and enjoy a plate of fries. The lodge room was full and the ceremony of Installation of the Master and Investiture of his Officers was performed quite quickly and very well done, I might add. Of note, in terms of Masonic education, it seems a "famous" Freemason hails from Waverley Lodge: George Alexander Drew, who was initiated in 1923, on March 26, ...