Our DDGM welcomes you...
As the District Deputy Grand Master for the Windsor District, I welcome you to our official “Windsor District” website. I do hope that you have an opportunity to spend some time viewing this all new website.
Windsor District has nine Masonic lodges who all meet on various nights in the Masonic Temple at the corner of Ouellette Avenue and Erie Street in Windsor, Ontario. We as a district pride ourselves in the charitable giving within our immediate community and area.
Our neighbouring Erie District also has nine Masonic lodges of which we keep in close fraternal contact with and have many mutual visitations between the two districts.
Atricles to consider
The Handshake...
The Handshake is one of the most powerful gestures between people. In business it symbolizes closure, affirmation and a contract. It also symbolizes warmth, friendship, trust, and honor. Members of the Masonic fraternity have stretched forth their hands to all men, using the handshack as an act of brotherly love, relief, truth and a general concern for others. The purpose of freemasonry is quite simple; to strengthen character, promote respect for others and to help those in need.
What is Masory...
Freemasonry is the world's largest and oldest fraternity. It dates back to at least the early seventeenth century and has counted such men as Wolfgang Mozart, John A MacDonald and George Washington as members. Freemasonry may have originated from the stonemasons who built the great English churches and castles of the Middle Ages, but it is so ancient that we are not entirely certain of it's origin.
The purpose of Freemasonry is to make a good man better in an enjoyable and rewarding manner. Masonry is thought to be a pattern for living - reverance, morality, kindness, honesty, dependability and compassion. He must be prepared to honour his country, uphold its laws and respect those in authority. He must be prepared to maintain honourable relations with others and be willing to share in Masonic activities.
Free Masonry Along the Detroit River...
The Detroit River has long been considered an international boundary; part of the longest undefended border in the world. It was also along the Detroit River that the first Masonic Lodge was established in Upper Canada, at Detroit.
The history of European settlement along the Detroit River dates back to 1700 when the French explorer Cadillac established a fortress on the north shore of the river. The fortress at Detroit is the oldest continually occupied European settlement west of Montreal.
