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MOST WORSHIPFUL BROTHER
HOWARD OLIN POLK
GRAND MASTER
GRAND LODGE
A.F. & A.M. OF CANADA
In the Province ofOntario
PROCEEDINGS
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SIXTH
ANNUAL COMMUNICATION
HELD IN
THE CITY OF
TORONTO
July I5th, A.D. 1981, A.L. 5981
The Property of and ordered to be read in all
the Lodges and preserved.

A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF OUR
GRAND MASTER
Howard Olin Polk, of Irish and United Empire Loyalist des-
cent, was born in Lombardy (Leeds County), the youngest of a
family of three, where his Father, the late Henry Edwin Polk,
married to the former Annie Mabel Burns, operated a General
Store and Post Office.
Aftercompleting his Primary education intheoneroom brick
School. S.S. No. 6, TownshipofSouth Elmsley, hegraduatedwith
Ontario Honours Matriculation from the Smiths Falls Collegiate
Institute, where he starred on the Track and Football Teams. At
that time, the existing world economic situation prevented further
academic advancement.
Our Brother enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1940, serving
with the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps until 1945. The last two
yearsofserviceinvolved thedisposal ofMechanized Equipment, in
Canada, Great Britain, and Continental Europe, through the War
Assets Corporation. Following discharge in 1945, Bro. Polk was
united in marriage with the former Doris Ullett, a dental nurse.
This union hasmadethem both theproud parentsoftwodaughters
(Pamela Lea Hoffman, a former Air Stewardess, residing with her
husband Carl, and two children, in Miami, Florida; and Penny
Heather, who operates her own business in Montreal, Quebec).
Subsequently, our Brother entered the labour force, spending
18 years as a Sales Representative for a National Manufacturerof
Paint and Protective Coatings throughout Eastern Ontario.
During this time, he completed several extension courses in Sales
and Sales Management, Business Management, and Common
Law. In 1960, he was appointed a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Carleton.
This training and experience led to his appointment as Clerk
ofthe County Court, and Registrar ofthe Surrogate Court forthe
Judicial District of Ottawa-Carleton in 1963; and later as Local
Registrar ofthe Supreme Court ofOntario, after having served as
President oftheSheriffs' and Court Registrars' Association forthe
Province of Ontario, in 1976, in which he still maintains a vital
interest, as he does in the many aspects of Civil Law.
Our Grand Master has devoted much thought and energy to
his governmental and political undertakings, and he has dedicated
the same degree ofeffort to his Masonic involvements during the
past forty years, as can be noted from the hereunder listings:
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Initiated in Otter Lodge No. 504, Lombardy in 1938,
—and W.M. in 1959.
Affiliated with, and Treasurer of Temple Lodge
—No. 665 Ottawa for 18 years.
Charter Member of Bytown Lodge No. 721, Ottawa.
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Elected Grand Registrar, 1962.
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—Elected to the Board of General Purposes in 1964.
Re-elected to the Board of General Purposes in each
alternate year from 1966 to 1978
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Served on the Committees of Audit and Finance,
and Masonic Education
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Chairman of the Committee on Warrants 1972-1976.
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Chairman of the Committee on Printing and Supplies
—from 1977 - 1979.
Appointed Grand Representative in 1970 for the
Grand Lodge of Utah.
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Elected Deputy Grand Master in July 1979, thereby
becoming President of the Board of General
Purposes.
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Concordant Bodies A. & A.S.R.
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Past Thrice Puissant Grand Master, Ottawa Lodge of
Perfection 14°
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Member Mussay Chapter of Rose Croix, Ottawa 18°
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Member Moore Sovereign Consistory, Hamilton 32°
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Member of the Royal Order of Scotland.
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Honorary Inspector General 33°
RAM.
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Member and Honorary Past First Principal of Carleton
Chapter No. 16, Ottawa.
Bro. Polk has been a life long member of the Anglican
Church, and has served on various Committees, as well as a
Sunday School Teacher.
Vitally interested in the welfare ofthe National Capital, our
Brother is involved in Community affairs, presently a member of
the Children's Aid Society, the Men's Canadian Club ofOttawa,
and the Central Canada Exhibition Association. His professed
hobbies are: outdoor life at thei—r summer cottage, gardening,
furniture refinishing and reading mostly biographies.
Our Grand Master's sincere dignity and service to Masonry
over the years is well known, highly respected, and wide spread.
We can be confident that he will maintain and uphold the high
ideals practiced and sustained by his predecessors.