Canadian Orange Historical Site

14th Surgeon General of the Canadian Army; Major-General; Commanding Officer of the 2nd Field Ambulance at the Battle of Amiens 1918; physician

RCAF Flight Lieutenant, No. 401 Squadron; Spitfire pilot; senior tunnel engineer of the Great Escape at Stalag Luft III; postwar businessman and co-founder of the RCAF Prisoners of War Association

Mayor of Toronto, 1864–1866 and 1874–1875; founder of the Don Foundry; first County Master of the County Orange Lodge of Toronto

Toronto real-estate developer; Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel, Toronto Scottish Regiment; proprietor of the Armour Heights Estate

Member of Parliament for Vancouver Centre and Kootenay East; Minister of Trade and Commerce 1930–1934; founder and only elected MP of the Reconstruction Party of Canada, 1935

Mayor of Toronto, 1912–1914; Member of Parliament; Senator of Canada

Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Belfast St Anne's, 1929–1938; DSO; author and CEF lieutenant

Member of Provincial Parliament for Victoria South 1914–1919; President and General Manager of The John Carew Lumber Company, Lindsay; President of the Lindsay Central Fair 1910–1915

Mayor of Toronto, August 1897 – January 1900; Member of Provincial Parliament for Toronto North 1908–1911; alderman 1883–1895

Presbyterian minister; Canadian Chaplain Service captain; Victoria Cross recipient (Dieppe, 1942); Ontario MPP and Minister of Reform Institutions 1950–1957

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1924–1926; MPP for Toronto Northeast and St. David; Canadian Expeditionary Force officer

Mayor of Toronto, 1854; Toronto city councillor for St. Lawrence Ward 1834–1854; Chairman of the Toronto Board of Public School Trustees 1852–1864; coal merchant and wharf proprietor

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 1863–1865; MP for Hastings South 1867–1878; Solicitor General (East); Chief Justice of Manitoba 1882–1887

Member of Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East 1945–1948 and 1951–1959; Hamilton City Council alderman; Royal Canadian Engineers 1918–1928; general contractor

Member of Provincial Parliament for Parry Sound 1886; Sheriff of Parry Sound 1895–c. 1921; Reeve of McKellar Township, twelve consecutive years

Premier of Newfoundland 1897–1900; Attorney General; Solicitor General; Speaker of the House of Assembly 1877–1879; Member for Burin (1873–1885) and for Harbour Grace (1885–1900)

Prime Minister of Canada 1894–1896; Member of Parliament for Hastings North 1867–1892; Senator 1892–1917; Grand Master of the Loyal Orange Association of British America 1870–1878

Mayor of Oshawa 1907–1908; Member of Provincial Parliament for Ontario riding 1925–1930; physician; author of Historic Sketches of Oshawa (1921)

Member of Provincial Parliament for West York, 1934–1943; Reeve of Etobicoke Township; Warden of York County, 1924

The Loyal Orange Association arrived on Prince Edward Island in 1849 with the chartering of Boyne Lodge at Charlottetown under an artilleryman of the British garrison. The provincial grand lodge was instituted in 1862, and Boyne Lodge received provincial incorporation in 1892. This page traces the early institutional history.

The Jesuit Estates Act of Quebec (1888) compensated the Roman Catholic Church for estates confiscated after the 1773 suppression of the Society of Jesus. Orange anger at the federal Conservatives' refusal to disallow it produced the 'Noble Thirteen' vote in March 1889 and — a year later — the long-sought Loyal Orange Association of British America Incorporation Act.

A combined children's home opened on Dominion Day, 1923 at Richmond Hill, Ontario, jointly run by the Loyal True Blue Association and the Grand Orange Lodge of Canada. Grew out of a Picton, Ontario orphanage begun in 1899. The Richmond Hill building operated as a Protestant children's home into the mid-20th century and remains a heritage landmark of the town.

A historical overview of the Loyal Orange Association of British America — its 1830 founding at Brockville, its century-long role in Canadian politics and civic life, its institutional structure, and its decline after the mid-20th century. Drawn from Houston & Smyth, Hereward Senior, Donald Akenson, Scott See, and David A. Wilson.

On Saint Stephen's Day 1883, a parade of between four and five hundred Newfoundland Orangemen at Harbour Grace met a blocking crowd of Catholic Riverhead residents. In the confrontation that followed, four men were killed and seventeen injured. Nineteen men were tried in February 1884; all were acquitted. The fallout helped unseat Premier Sir William Whiteway's government in 1885.