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Officers for 2009/2010
Worshipful Master	W. Bro. Ross Guerrero
Immediate Past Master	W. Bro. Brian Stapley
Senior Warden	Bro. Carlton Williams
Junior Warden	Bro. Michael Campbell
Treasurer	Bro. Craig Daniels
Secretary	Bro. Joseph Galati
Senior Deacon	Bro. Daniel Vitto
Junior Deacon	Bro. Steve Fabion
Director of Ceremonies	W. Bro. Ross Trumphour
Inner Guard	Bro. Scott Jordon
Senior Steward	Bro. George Brownl
Junior Steward	Bro. Gregeory Hunter
Tyler	W. Bro. Frederick P. Lock
Assistant Secretary	Bro. Sredoje Vakaraskov
Historian	W. Bro. Brian Stapley

Richmond Lodge #23 G.R.C. The Interior of the 1870 Yonge Street Masonic Hall of Richmond Lodge

"A History of Richmond Lodge", published in 1974 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the lodge, states;- "Richmond Lodge had a beginning which is vague, a history which is interesting." The exact date of the Lodge's formation is simply not known, in spite of considerable study and much research. "As with many of the early Lodges, records of proceedings are either rare or non-existant".

The first known reference to Richmond Lodge is in a letter of the Grand Secretary of the Second Provincial Grand Lodge, dated September 20th, 1825. It states that Richmond Lodge was among six Lodges for which no Warrants had been obtained, that had joined the 2nd Provincial Grand Lodge since its formation in 1822. The authors of the 1974 history reviewed a number of documents in their efforts to determine the date of the origin of the lodge. Perhaps the most compelling evidence comes from one edition of the venerable newspaper "The Liberal" at the turn of the century. In that report they quote a local historian whose memory carried him back to the 1840's.

"Another old building was built in 1823 by Rowland Burr. The upper room of this building was the First Masonic Hall in our town and the birthplace of Richmond Lodge #23. The old house was pulled down to make way for the White Hart Hotel which fell prey to the flames, and cleared the site for the Grand Central."

After the loss of their first home, Lodge meetings were held in a variety of sites, usually at hotels in the community. While these locations were adequate, there was a continuing desire by the membership to possess their own premises for a meeting place. In 1870 a lodge building was built and dedicated on Yonge Street in Richmond Hill. The photo above is from the 1974 publication "History of Richmond Lodge" and shows the interior of the Yonge Street Masonic Temple. This building served the Lodge until March 1958 when it was sold in anticipation of the completion of a new building. The first meeting in that new Masonic Hall at 112 Crosby Ave. at the corner of Pugsley Avenue was held on May 20th 1959. The stone from the front of the Yonge Street building was preserved and installed in the wall just inside the front door of the Crosby Avenue Masonic Hall.