FYI our Ashlar Masonic Temple Gate has been featured on page 8 of the October 2015 (note PDF 9 MB) issue of the City of Nanaimo Culture and Heritage Department Newsletter. Here’s the link – note PDF 9 MB
W.B. Mark Anderson, 26 October 2015
Welcome to the Ashlar Lodge, No.3 Masonic blog. This is the first actual blog post since our new website went online on 21 October 2015.
Nanaimo has a rich Masonic history and heritage but we have forgotten or overlooked much of it.
When I posted the first information of our Historic Membership Lists pages I came across the name of Brother John William Glaholm in our 1920s and 1930s membership lists.
Then I stumbled across a building on the Nanaimo Heritage Register: the Rawlinson and Glaholm Grocery, built in 1916 and designed by Seattle architect E.J. Bresemann, who also designed several buildings on the City of Victoria Heritage Building Registry.
So for our first Ashlar Lodge, No.3 blog research project, I’m going to look into whether the the “Glaholm” in the “Rawlinson & Glaholm Grocery” is the Bro. John William Glaholm listed in our Ashlar Lodge, No. 3 Historic Membership Lists.
I’ll post what I find in a later blog post. If anybody else has anything about Masonic history in Nanaimo or wants to do some research, please forward what you find to webmaster@ashlar3.com and I’ll post it here.
W.B. Mark Anderson, 26 October 2015
13 November 2015 Update
WB Tim Findlay and I went to the Nanaimo Archives today and looked up the obituary for John W. Glaholm. It turns out the John W. Glaholm who was involved in the Rawlinson and Glaholm Grocery is, in fact, the John Glaholm who appears in our early Membership Lists. We have updated the website to include these findings and created a page for John William Glaholm.
This is the new web domain of Ashlar Lodge, No.3, A.F. & A.M., Nanaimo, British Columbia.
The new Ashlar Lodge, No.3 website is currently Under Construction but is up and running with some useful information.
Unfortunately there is a minor technical glitch with our domain name pointer, which is pointing to this blog page instead of our Home Page. Until we get this sorted out, please use this link to go to our Ashlar Lodge, No.3 Home Page
Please keep checking back with us as we are regularly adding new information and pages to our website.
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