DISTRICT
HISTORY
Prior to the creation of Western District, lodges in NW Ontario were part of the Algoma District. There were 15 lodges total in Algoma District pre-1932. In 1932 Western District was formed and it comprised of eight lodges. The first District Deputy Grand Master RW. Bro. Earl C. Popham of Lake of the Woods Lodge was appointed by the Grand Master M.W. Bro. Herrington of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Provice of Ontario. The following is a list of the District Deputy Grandmasters of Western District.
"In the 1930's most of Western District was accesible only by train, trail or gravel roads. Visiting the combined lodges of the now Algoma and Western District would have been an epic journey. The creation of Western District made it more realistic that the DDGM could make at least one visit to a lodge per year."
List of DDGMs of Western District
2018 Colin B. McFayden
2017 Bro Robert Kitowski
2016 Mitchel J. Rogowsky
2015 Knowles E. McGill
2014 David S. Coulter
2013 W. Murray Alexander
2012 Warren O. Copeland
2011 Barry D. Jackson
2010 A. Roger MacKay
2009 Robert W. Cox
2008 Daniel W. Johnson
2007 Terry A. Dunbar
2006 John F. Whitton
2005 Philip R. Berard
2004 M. Jack Devins
2003 C. Kenneth McDonald
2002 Jeff Gould
2001 Alin M. Tibbetts
2000 Jerry J ossachuck
1999 Earl W. LaPlante
1998 Hans Wettstein
1997 Jack F. Sykes
1996 Rudy marquardt
1995 Wayne G. Pearen
1994 Arther J. Gagnon
1993 W. F. McQuaker
1992 Garde Rutter
1991 J. E. Myers
1990 R. W. Booth
1989 A. Allin
1988 W. S. Hagarty
1987 C. W. Kacan
1986 J. L. Parrott
1985 S. D. Sanders
1984 G. E. Devins
1983 A. D. McClendon
1982 A. F. Brown
1981 R. A. Cumming
1980 Douglas B. Mackie
1979 Robert B. Mathison
1978 Alex Warnuk
1977 James D. Jackson
1976 George Bremner
1975 Wesley H. Houston
1974 Gerald A. Fitzgerald
1973 William A. McQuaker
1972 David W. Whitten
1971 Carl F. Schubring
1970 John K. Forbes
1969 Douglas R. Buie
1968 William B. Warner
1967 Wallace F. Piercy
1966 J. Edwin J. Fahlgren
1965 Paul Kendall
1964 Harold C. SKead
1963 Edmond A. Langstaff
1962 John A. Cox
1961 N. E. Johnson
1960 C. C. Galloway
1959 Jack B. Fraser
1958 Victor K. Croxford
1957 Norman Charles Nuson
1956 Albert E. McGraw
1955 Michael H. Badger
1954 Alexander Barclay
1953 William A. Smith
1952 Thomas Proudfoot
1951 Nelson S. Marsh
1950 J. M. Adams
1949 George Gruchy
1948 Charles E. Letman
1947 R. A. Shields
1946 T. J. Thomas
1945 D. R. Young
1944 Alfred Pitt
1943 Alfred H. Watson
1942 Robt. Mitchell
1941 E. E. Jess
1940 Arthur G. Holland
1939 W. T. Cameron
1938 Jas. W. Douglas
1937 Cecil R. lyons
1936 Herv D. Humphreys
1935 F. H. Huffman
1934 Charles W. House
1933 Henry John Hughs
1932 EARL C. POPHAM
Agoma District DDGM from Western District Lodges, Pre 1932 (link)
H.S.Cade 1929 - Dryden
W.H. Green 1926 - Sioux Lookout
A.M. Taylor 1924 - Dryden (photo)
W.A. Quibelle 1911- Dryden
