The Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of New Brunswick Acacia Lodge #49
e-mail: AcaciaLodgeNo49@gmail.com
What is a Mason?
"A MASON is a MAN and a BROTHER whose trust is on GOD.
HE meets upon the LEVEL and acts upon the SQUARE,
TRUTH is his COMPASS and he is ever PLUMB. He has a true
GRIP on all that is RITE. He is loyal to his ORDER and whatever his
degree he is MASTER of himself. In the lodge of life he wears
unstained the white LAMBSKIN of innocence. From his Initiation
as an ENTERED APPRENTICE he travels ever East toward the
LIGHT of WISDOM until he receives the final - the DIVINE PASSWORD
that admits him into the INEFFABLE PRESENCE OF THE ETERNAL SUPREME GRAND MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE - GOD"
Historically, Freemasonry had its beginnings in New Brunswick on November 7, 1783, towards the end of the great migration of Loyalists from the conflict in the United States. On that date, Jared Betts of St Anne's, Nova Scotia (now Fredericton, NB) directed a letter to the Secretary of Lodge #211 at Halifax asking permission to organize a lodge under a warrant held issued by McDermott, Grand Master of Ireland. Permission was denied. However, Betts actually received a dispensation from Lodges #155 and #211, then existing in Halifax.
New Brunswick became a separate province in 1784, and in September of that year, Hiram Lodge in Parrtown (now Saint John, NB) received a dispensation from Halifax as Lodge #17. St. George Lodge was established at Maugerville (pronounced "Major ville") in 1788, and New Brunswick Lodge in 1789. Over the next 37 years other lodges came into existence under the authority of the Provincial Grand Lodges of either Nova Scotia, England, Ireland or Scotland.
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