What is the Lodge of Perfection?
Many questions raised in the Craft Lodge are answered in the Scottish Rite degrees.
This Body confers degrees from 4th to 14th. They amplify the legend of the Master Mason Degree and the story of the building of King Solomon’s Temple. These degrees are designed to build on the teachings of the first three degrees given in the Craft Lodge.
Unlike the Craft Lodge, candidates are not required to do memory work in any of the Scottish Rite degrees. Upon completion of the 14th degree, the new Scottish Rite member is entitled to wear the distinguished Scottish Rite ring that has retained its design over 200 years. An inscription inside the ring reads: “Virtue has joined, death shall not separate”.
Lodge of Perfection News
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Ottawa Lodge of Perfection Officers 2023-24
The Ron Campbell Class at the 14th Degree
Contacts
Executive Secretary ExecutiveSecretary@ottawavalleyscottishrite.com
Banquets: JGW@ottawavalleyscottishrite.com
Officers for 2022-2023
T.P. Grand Master: Wayne Parker 33°
Senior Grand Warden: Robert Wilson 32°
Junior Grand Warden: Jean-François Plamondon 32°
Grand Orator: Norman Allingham 32°
Grand Master of Ceremonies: Ken Goudie 32°
Grand Chaplain: Donald Smallman 32°
Grand Expert: 32°
Assistant Grand Expert: 32°
Grand Captain of the Host: Robert Booth 32°
Grand Tyler: To Be Confirmed
I.P.T.P. Grand Master: Mark Gauthier 33°
Grand Secretary: Armin P. Braslins 33°
Treasurer: Jeff Noseworthy 33°
Almoner: Dale Olm 33°
Ottawa Lodge of Perfection:
Instituted June 8, 1889.
Past Presiding Officers
| 1889-93 *E. B. Butterworth 33° | |
| 1894 *W. B. McArthur 33° | 1896-98 *Sidney A. Luke 33° |
| 1899-1900 *J. Robertson 33° | 1901 *W. G. S. Reynolds 33° |
| 1902 *J. L. Culbert 32° | 1903 *J. A. Armstrong 32° |
| 1904 *G. H. Rogers 32° | 1905 *J. Wilson 32° |
| 1906 *E. A. Oliver 33° | 1907 *S. B. Sinclair 32° |
| 1908 *A. G. Greenfield 18° | 1909 *J. C. Scott 33° |
| 1910 *S. S. Davidson 33° | 1911 *F. E. Perney33° |
| 1912 *W. M. Ross 33° | 1913 *J. H. Putman 33° |
| 1914 *J. A. Ewart 32° | 1915 *C. W. Jeffery 33° |
| 1916 *T. Shanks 33° | 1917 *E .S. McPhail 33° |
| 1918 *E. J. McCleery 33° | 1919 *A. H. McKee 32° |
| 1920 *T. E. Glendinnen 32° | 1921 *R. H. Lang 33° |
| 1922 *W. A. Oliver 32° | 1923 *J. A. Dobbie 33° |
| 1929 *R. G. Knox 32° | |
| 1930 *G. R. Buskard 18° | 1931 *E. Eastwood 18° |
| 1932 *F. A. Jones 33° | 1933 *W. J. Peaker 18 ° |
| 1934 *D. B. Nugent 33° | 1935 *M. Easson 18° |
| 1936 *J. H. Carkner 18° | 1937 *C. M. Campbell 33° |
| 1938 *R. M. Stanton 33° | 1939 *A. G. Taylor 32° |
| 1940 *W. G. Beddoe 18° | 1941 *W. H. Scrivins 33° |
| 1942 *H. L. Carson 32° | 1943 *W. H. G. Flay 18° |
| 1944 *J. C. Browne 33° | 1945 *H. M. Cairney 33° |
| 1946 *G. A. McLeod 33° | 1947 *J. S. Craig 32° |
| 1948 *D. R. Kennedy 33° | 1949 *T. D. C. Hamilton 33° |
| 1950 *E. E. A. Devitt 32° | 1951 *W. I. Haskett 33° |
| 1952 *W. E. Leach 18° | 1953 *H. S. Jevons 33° |
| 1954 *William G. Strong 33° | 1955 *C. D. Donald 33° |
| 1956 *J. D. Beaton 33° | 1957 *W. E. Meldrum 33° |
| 1958 *F. G. Dawson 33° | 1959 *J. A. Allan 33° |
| 1960 *R. Officer 33° | 1961 *D. A. H. Gilles 33° |
| 1962 *Birkett Lishman 33° | 1963 *Frederick J.P. Van Veen 33° |
| 1964 *J. A. Johnston 33° | 1965 *George H. Nelms 32° |
| 1966 *J. E Green 32° | 1967 *W. E. Roe 18° & *J. E Green 32° |
| 1968 *Ernest J. J. Jackson 33° | 1969 *A. A. Huebener 32° |
| 1970 Charles W. Mavor 33° | 1971 * Howard O. Polk 33° |
| 1972 *R. C. Taylor 33° | 1973 *G. F. Farrow 32° |
| 1974 *Kenneth N. Nesbitt 33° | 1975 *R. Keith Sullivan 33° |
| 1976 *Lou J. McAdam 32° | 1977 *Frederick F. Horton 33° |
| 1978 *J. Robert Wainwright 33° | 1979 *Jack J. Reid 33° |
| 1980 G. Murray McIlveen 33° | 1981 Lawson B. Nichols 33° |
| 1982 *Lloyd G. Moar 33° | 1983 *Robert H. Bulbrook 33° |
| 1984 Burton R. Panke 33° | 1985 *Wilfred A. Speck 33° |
| 1986 *Walter M. Hamilton 33° | 1987 *Robert G. Gordon 32°&*Walter M. Hamilton 33° |
| 1988 *Ronald G. Cousens 32° | 1989 *John G. Pell 33° |
| 1990 *James G. Salvin 33° | 1991 *John Brian Irvine 33° |
| 1992 *Lyle G. Byers 33° | 1993 Gerald L. Turner 33° |
| 1994 *James J. McDougall 32° | 1995 *William D. Burns 33° |
| 1996 *William D. Burns 33° | 1997 Gerald L. Turner 33° |
| 1998 Rae W. Grant 33° | 1999 Jeffery A. Christie 33° |
| 2000 Armin P. Braslins 33° | 2001 Ronald K. Campbell 33° |
| 2002 *Alan Arbuckle 33° | 2003 Paul E. Todd 33° |
| 2004 Ronald J. Taylor 33° | 2005 *Ralph Finlayson 32° |
| 2006 Grant Stonehouse 32° | 2007 *Douglas Good 32° |
| 2008 Armin P. Braslins 33° | 2009 Robert Bouchard 32° |
| 2010 Ivan Harris 33° | 2011 *Ralph Finlayson 32° |
| 2012 *Douglas Good 32° | 2013 Peter Nonkoh 32° |
| 2014 Ronald J. Taylor 32° | 2015 Donald Smallman 32° |
| 2016 Fadi Sabbagh 32° | 2017 John Guinn, 32° |
| 2023 Mark Gauthier 33° |
*Passed to the Grand Lodge Above