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

      Access points area

      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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