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Five biographical compilation pages on the original Canadian Orange Historical Site carried short lives of thirty-four Orangemen, from a Speaker of the House of Commons to a Toronto soap manufacturer. The pages went offline with the rest of the old site. This page recovers every entry from the Internet Archive, with the birthplaces, dates, lodge numbers and Grand Lodge offices each one recorded, plus the surviving Addy family record and the Canadian Expeditionary Force commanders the compilations name.

The 1911 Report of Proceedings of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ontario West listed every member death returned by its primary lodges during the previous year. This page recovers that roll in full from the Internet Archive: 264 named men, each with his lodge number, his county, and the month of death as the return recorded it.

In 1871 every Orange lodge west of the western boundary of Victoria County fell under the Grand Orange Lodge of Ontario West. This page reconstructs a directory of the primary lodges documented as working in that jurisdiction by 1871, with numbers, places and warrant dates, explains why lodge numbers were reused, and sets out where the surviving records are held.

The original Canadian Orange Historical Site carried a seven-part run of transcribed newspaper obituaries for members of the Loyal Orange Association. Those pages went offline with the rest of the old site. This page recovers them from the Internet Archive as a single searchable index of 144 named men and women, giving for each one the date printed in the notice, the place, and the lodge number or Orange office recorded.

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.

Orangemen's Day, the 12 July commemoration of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne, was for over a century one of the most public dates in the Canadian Protestant calendar. It survives today as a paid government holiday in Newfoundland and Labrador, one of the few places outside Northern Ireland where the date is still officially observed.

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. Operated as a Protestant children's home until Ontario's 1982 shift away from institutional orphanages, after which the building was converted to a licensed childcare centre that continues to operate on the site today, alongside a run as home to Century Montessori School through the 1990s.

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.

The institutional and regional history of the Loyal Orange Association in Upper Canada, Canada West and Ontario: the county lodge system, the 1859 division into Ontario East and Ontario West, the Order's long grip on Toronto city hall, the Twelfth of July, the Orange hall as rural architecture, and the twentieth-century decline that left 95 primary lodges where there had once been thousands.

The Royal Black Institution is a separate order from the Orange Lodge, open only to Orangemen who have taken the Royal Arch Purple degree. Its Canadian governing body, the Grand Black Chapter of British America, was constituted at Toronto in 1874, though the Blacks had been working in the colonies since about 1829. This page covers the structure, the eleven degrees, the preceptory numbering, and where Canadian preceptory records survive.