

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
