Loyal Orange Lodge No. 876 (North Bay)

Identity area

Type of entity

Corporate body

Authorized form of name

Loyal Orange Lodge No. 876 (North Bay)

Parallel form(s) of name

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

Other form(s) of name

  • LOL 876
  • Nipissing Loyal Orange Lodge 876

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

1888-1999?

History

Loyal Orange Lodge No. 876 was a Protestant fraternal organization in North Bay, Ontario. A primary (or local) lodge of the Orange Order, Lodge No. 876 was the first to be established in North Bay, receiving its warrant from the Loyal Orange Institution of British North America on March 15, 1888. Lodges of the Orange Order provided social events and mutual aid to their members, and had a Masonic-style organizational structure and system of degrees. Active for over one hundred years, Lodge No. 876 was dissolved around 1999 after a long decline in membership.

Places

North Bay, Ont. (1888-1999?)

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Mandates/sources of authority

Warrant of Loyal Orange Lodge No. 876 (<a href="http://archives.eclibrary.ca/loyal-orange-lodge-no-876-warrant" target="_blank">Item 0003-04</a>)

Internal structures/genealogy

As a primary lodge of the Orange Order, Lodge No. 876 was headed by a Worshipful Master and a Deputy Master. Other officers included a Chaplain, Recording Secretary, Financial Secretary, Treasurer, 1st Lecturer, Deputy Lecturer, and Marshal.

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

Loyal Orange District Lodge D.83 (District of North Nipissing) (1911-1969)

Identifier of related entity

NUCCASC-AR0028

Category of relationship

hierarchical

Type of relationship

Loyal Orange District Lodge D.83 (District of North Nipissing)

is the superior of

Loyal Orange Lodge No. 876 (North Bay)

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

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Subject access points

Place access points

Occupations

Control area

Authority record identifier

NUCCASC-AR0017

Institution identifier

Nipissing University and Canadore College Archives and Special Collections

Rules and/or conventions used

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Created February 11, 2015 by Peter Houston

Language(s)

  • English

Script(s)

Sources

The Canadian Encyclopedia. "Orange Order." Accessed February 11, 2015. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/orange-order/

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