186 PAST AND PRESENT OF Knight Templarism into this province. He (lied on the 26th of May, 1904. On the formation of the Sovereign Great Priory of Canada , Col. MacLeod Moore, who came to Canada in 1852, holding a staff appoint¬ ment, was ejected to the distinguished po¬ sition of supreme grand master ad vitam. The name of our veteran brother will long be remembered as that of one of the most cul¬ tured Masons of his day. He was on able writer and on matters pertaining to Knight Templarism was justly considered one of the greatest authorities in the world. In 1850 he established the first Knight Templar en¬ campment ever held in Malta. There are many distinguished men in connection with the order in Canada , the United States and Europe. The order endured persecution and was nearly exterminated. Still it survives. Jacques de Molay , the martyred grand mas¬ ter, in anticipation of his fate, appointed his successor to rule the fraternity, and from that time to the present there has been an uninterrupted succession of grand masters. The motto of the order is "In hoc signo vinces"—in this sign we conquer. SCOTTISH RITE MASONRY . The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry is under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council for the Dominion of Canada , whose see is in the city of , in the province of , near the B. B . and under the C. C . of the zenith, which answers unto forty-five degrees and thirty-one min¬ utes north latitude and seventy-three degrees and twenty minutes west longitude of the meridian of Greenwich . Albert Edward Lodge of Perfection was organized on the 23d of September, 1896, by Illustrious John A. Watson , thirty-sec¬ ond degree, acting as special delegate from the sovereign grand commander, John W. Murton, authorizing him to open and inaugu¬ rate said lodge, and to act for him and do whatever may be legal and necessary to do. This document was dated on the 26th of Au¬ gust, 1896. The dispensation from the grand commander to the brethren was dated on the 10th day of August, 1896. The petition praying for a dispensation was signed by the following names: 111. Brother R. MacNeill , M. D. , Thirty-second; 111. Donald Darrach , M. D. , Thirty-second; Thomas Maclean , Thirty-second; William. Arthur Brennan , Thirty-second; Thomas J. Dillon , Thirty-second, John A. Watson , Thirty-second; Arthur I. Trueman , Thirty- second; and Sov. Princes William B. Wal ¬ lace, Eighteenth, and Alexander MacRae , Eighteenth. The following were the first officers of Albert Edward Lodge of Per¬ fection: Donald Darrach , M. D. , thrice puissant grand master; Thomas A. MacLean , senior grand warden; Roderick ?vlacNeill, M. D. , junior grand warden. The follow¬ ing membership were then admitted: Ben¬ jamin Rogers, Sr., John A. Messervey , John Ross , Neil MacKelvie , William Dodd Small, Benjamin Rogers , Jr., Robert Scott Mac ¬ Kelvie , John C. Hobbs , William A. Hous ¬ ton, James MacLeod , M.D. , Leonard Morris , William S. Stewart , Benjamin Charles Prowse , Alexander Home, Frederick Parker Carvell , Henry William Anderson , John J. Davies , Ronald MacMillan and Herbert Harold Shaw , who were all installed Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons in due and ancient form. The following telegram was received: St. John , N . B. , September 23, 1896. To 111. bro. John A. Watson : Heartiest congratulations to the Illustrious Brethren who have planted the banner of Scot¬ tish Rite Masonry in the of Canada . (Signed) ROBERT MARSHALL .